Example sentences for: vassal

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

  • "In England, the rule was well established that 'no lord could be sued by a vassal in his own court, but each petty lord was subject to suit in the courts of a higher lord.

  • Unable or unwilling to court the old vassal Malay States or the orang laut pirates to patrol the seas, the new rulers forfeited their predecessors’ commercial monopoly in the Melaka Straits and, with it, command of the Moluccas spice trade.

  • Edward treated King John as a vassal.

  • But Bali was no mere vassal state of Java.

  • 265)--"Serfs Up": "In England, the rule was well established that 'no lord could be sued by a vassal in his own court, but each petty lord was subject to suit in the courts of a higher lord."


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