Example sentences for: viceroy

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

  • One is reminded that in 1938, during a safari arranged for the British Viceroy of India, hundreds of elephants took part in a hunt that bagged 120 tigers, 38 rhinos, and 27 leopards.

  • A viceroy ruled each island at the King’s pleasure.

  • Dynamic Lord Curzon, viceroy from 1899 to 1905, was driven by a lofty imperial vision of the British role in India.

  • 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.

  • Later the title was upgraded to khedive, the equivalent of Viceroy.


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