Example sentences for: viceroy

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

  • For a change, it’s not something that Napoléon looted during a campaign, but was a gift from Mohammed Ali, viceroy of Egypt.

  • On the site of the ancient viceroy’s palace, in the very center of Chengdu, stands a heavy, columned socialist-realist building; a giant statue of Mao Zedong graces the entrance.

  • The East India Company was replaced by a Government with a Viceroy answering to a Secretary of State for India in London.

  • With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India’s last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.

  • Facing the “lane of Flowers” is the elegant Palau de la Virreina, a palace completed in 1778 for the widow of the viceroy of colonial Peru.


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