Example sentences for: reigning

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

  • Witness the number of big names turning in shrewd, non-hammy, anti-Robin Williams performances in animated films; witness Bruce Willis reviving his career by ceasing to be Bruce Willis; witness the reigning stardom of Gwyneth Paltrow, who is not the Audrey Hepburn supernova she's cracked up to be, but, to her credit, a chameleon character actress who happens to lovely.

  • 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.

  • His genial Freudian approach fit right in with the reigning sociological wisdom, which championed the democratic, "affectionate" family as the welcome successor to the hierarchical home of the past.

  • 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.

  • Luz de Gas (Muntaner, 246) and Otto Zutz (Lincoln, 15) continue to be the reigning dance clubs, which don’t get going until well after midnight.


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