Example sentences for: rulers

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

  • For most of this century, colonial rulers or nationalist dictators dominated countries, monopolizing power with mighty central governments.

  • Caution was the watchword among Italian rulers restored to their lands after Napoleon’s defeat.

  • In 1923, Turkey broke away from the tired Ottoman rulers, and Kemal Ataturk rose to power on a wave of popular support.

  • Huge representations of rulers like Ramses II illustrate the power held by the throne and by the cult of personality, though there are also tiny sculptures such as a bust of Queen Hatschepsut, which may have stood on a mantle or in a niche, showing that Egyptians were not just fixated by the epic and monumental.

  • Analysts agree Abiola is the only man who could have claimed a popular mandate to supplant Nigeria's military rulers.


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