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"Reign" in a Sentence (20 examples)
The English sovereign is generally said to reign but not rule.
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign.
Under the reign of tyranny, innocent people were deprived of their citizenship.
Winter's reign was nearing its end.
The political situation was, to say the least, extremely unstable during the next ten years of his reign.
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
The reign of Philip II lasted forty years.
Grandeur and gallantry never appeared with more lustre in France, than in the last years of Henry the Second's reign.
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
It is generally believed that Buddhism first came to China in 67 A.D. during the reign of Emperor Mingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
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England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign.
Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be.
The reign of Victoria was a long one.
And the Fox guileful, and most covetous; / That neither pleased was, to have the reign / Twixt them divided into even twain
He reigned in an autocratic manner.
Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth, And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385.
Silence reigned.
Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.
Unfortunately – and ironically – the word ‘system’ itself is used in such a wide variety of contexts within animal science, as indeed it is in virtually every domain of human activity, that confusion reigns about what a systems-oriented research programme actually looks like and what systems-oriented animal scientists actually do.
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