Example sentences for: sultans

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

  • The sultans were left in charge of local and religious affairs, content with their prestige, prosperity, and security.

  • On the grounds that the sultans were too soft, he cut through Delhi in 1398, slaughtering thousands of Hindus and carrying off thousands more as slaves.

  • As Istanbul it was the seat of the Ottoman sultans, rulers of a 500-year Islamic empire that stretched from the Black Sea and the Balkans to Arabia and Algeria.

  • Starting out from Pune, Shivaji’s Marathas fought off the Deccan sultans at Bijapur and the Mughals at Purandar.

  • Leave the moral high ground to poets, sultans, and the powers that be: Keep away from trouble and sing to it, suggests one saying; but most warn that trouble will come anyway.


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