Example sentences for: sultanate

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

  • Without ever retrieving the supremacy of the old Melaka sultanate, Johor had become the strongest Asian power in the region.

  • On the great island of Borneo, East Malaysia’s states of Sarawak and Sabah surround the enclave of the oil-rich sultanate of Brunei.

  • Balanini pirates, fervent Muslims, disputed the coast of northeastern Borneo (modern Sabah) with the sultanate of Brunei.

  • Governed by the great bendahara Mutahir with more diplomacy than military force, the sultanate asserted its supremacy over the whole Malay peninsula (except for the northernmost Thai-held Patani region) and across the Melaka Straits to the east coast of Sumatra.

  • These latter vast regions of forests, rivers, and mountains border the Indonesian state of Kalimantan and the oil-rich sultanate of Brunei.


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