Example sentences for: reigning

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

  • Apostolic bull: A document that derives its name from the Latin bulla , meaning "leaden seal," which is used to imprint the reigning pope's insignia, or seal, on the document.

  • 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.

  • There are a maximum of 16 knights at any one time, headed by the reigning monarch.

  • Jaume I died after reigning in Aragón for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.

  • Also, an article endorses the reigning view that Trent Lott is a compromiser, not an ideologue.


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