Example sentences for: viceroy

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

  • 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.

  • He surrendered at Yorktown during the American War of Independence (1781), subdued Tipu Sultan (1792); as viceroy of Ireland, he suppressed the rebellion of 1798.

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

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

  • 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.


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