Example sentences for: monarchy

How can you use “monarchy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bin Ladin, whose efforts in Afghanistan had earned him celebrity and respect, proposed to the Saudi monarchy that he summon mujahideen for a jihad to retake Kuwait.

  • Following the return of the British monarchy in 1660, Cromwell’s work was redone and the buildings extended.

  • The antebellum modesty, while in part a reflection of the conventional etiquette of the time, may also have served a political objective: to alleviate the concerns of those who--in the early days of the republic--feared it might be transformed into a monarchy, and the president into a king.

  • The monarchy was elective, rather than hereditary, which led to disputes over succession to the crown; and in one of these, the disaffected party looked to North Africa for an ally.

  • During the dark ages Athens had been a monarchy, but it emerged as an oligarchy in the seventh century b.c.


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