Example sentences for: reigning

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

  • By marrying his daughters to sons of the reigning emperor and then engineering timely abdications, a Fujiwara contrived always to be father-in-law, uncle, or grandfather behind the throne.

  • In the wake of Viacom's acquisition of CBS, which, among other things, paired CBS' television network with Paramount's television-production studio, the reigning conventional wisdom is that NBC, now the only network without a studio partner, needs to find one as fast as it can.

  • Though it's hard to sustain a point of view when the goal is to be best-selling and definitive, the book's reigning mood is progressive populism tempered by realistic pessimism.

  • In the past, when this fate has befallen the reigning ethnic group in American society, the group's standard response has been to redefine merit.

  • The new nationalism led Piedmont into the Italian orbit at the head of the Risorgimento unification movement, and the House of Savoy served as Italy’s reigning royal family from 1861 to 1946, with Turin serving ever so briefly as the capital of the newly unified Italy in 1861.


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