Sovereign

//ˈsɒv.ɹɪn//

"Sovereign" in a Sentence (32 examples)

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

The English sovereign is generally said to reign but not rule.

Queen Victoria was the sovereign of Great Britain.

The sovereign completely recovered from his illness.

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

It's not true that equality is a law of nature; nature makes nothing equal - her sovereign laws are subordination and dependence.

It is false that equality is a law of nature. Nature makes nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Puerto Rico is not a sovereign state.

Your sovereign is king of Prussia and emperor of Germany.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund is so large, that every Norwegian is a millionaire on paper.

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Her voice was her sovereign talent.

The ſoueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine She pownded ſmall, and did in peeces bruze, And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, Into his wound the iuyce thereof did ſcruze […]

[…] God save the mark!— And telling me the sovereign’st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;

Homer of Moly and Nepenthe singes: Moly, the gods most soveraigne hearbe divine. Nepenth Hellen's drink, which gladnes brings,— Hart's greife repells, and doth yᵉ witts refine.

a sovereign remedy

Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.

In Spain people still bathe in the sea or roll naked in the dew of the meadows on St. John’s Eve, believing that this is a sovereign preservative against diseases of the skin.

Gentlemen, may I introduce Her Royal Highness, the Sovereign and Most Imperial Majesty, Empress Elizabeth of Vicron.

You're the keeper of the castle So be a father to your children The provider of all their daily needs Like a sovereign Lord protector Be their destiny's director And they'll do well to follow where you lead.

You pity not the state, nor the remembrance of his most sovereign name.

We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.

The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.

Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Archangel, this the seat That we must change for Heaven?, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since hee Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right : fardest from him is best Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream Above his equals. […]

No question is to be made but that the bed of the Missisippi^([sic]) belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation.

A loose network of perhaps tens of thousands of far-right antigovernment extremists, sovereigns share certain conspiratorial beliefs and, sometimes, a desire to profit off a government whose legitimacy they deny.

No, someone who wears loads of sovereigns as well loads of gold and has uh a curly perm and peroxide blonde hair, orange, orange sunbed skin and a fringe like this blow-dried to death, that’s a ‘scally’.

No visible tattoos, sovereigns, mismatched jewellery, scrunchies, large clips or hoop earrings.

To the security of the Protestant interests—to the security of the Protestant Church—it is not only our duty, as Members of the British Parliament, to pay particular attention, but, it is also the particular duty of the Sovereign himself.

Alas! and did my Saviour bleed? / And did my Sovereign dye?

My Sov'reign, to thy throne, / With humble hope I preſs, / O bow thine ear to hear the groan / Of indigent diſtreſs.

We trust You, Sovereign of our years / With all of our tomorrows

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