Example sentences for: regarded

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

  • But he warned against this person being regarded as "a successor to the throne," since the next head of state will be chosen not by Yeltsin, but by the Russian people.

  • One professional British lexicographer told me, categorically, that no one uses the - tch - pronunciation in Britain, where it would be regarded as wrong or pedantic.

  • It remains to be seen what will be written about the 20th century, the close of which is seeing a spread of English via the Internet that is regarded as so pernicious by the French that they have seen fit to prosecute a company (with a pied á terre in France) for advertising on the medium in English without the accompaniment of a French translation.

  • Suppose the World Health Organisation (WHO) developed an R&D contribution ‘norm’ based upon this or a more appropriate figure and that there was international agreement that countries evaluated as meeting this norm would no longer be regarded as ‘free riding’.

  • The two changes are different, of course: the former marks a final succumbing to the relentless forces of the indicative: the weakening of the subjunctive might be regarded as a rejection of the tolerance of uncertainty on the part of the speaker, perhaps a product of the late-20th-century obsession with the facts, resulting in insecurity when faced with doubt, with low probability, or with contrary-to-fact situations.


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