LOYAL in a Sentence

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For LOYAL, below is one of 45 sentences:
Her hostess had not been included in the Duchess's invitation, though she herself had made the most loyal efforts in that direction.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOYAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
loyal
 a.  faithful to a person, ideal, custom, cause, or duty
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  They are enshrined in the hearts of all loyal Southerners, and no one begrudges them the scant monetary returns they make for their risks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Atlanta read, knew the oracle had spoken, and, as loyal Confederates, they hastened to cast Rhett out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  I'm sure he's just as loyal and patriotic as any of us and he's just too proud to defend himself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  She could afford to be loyal to Dimity and say nice things about her, for Alex Fontaine had never been one of her own beaux.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Everybody isn't as loyal to the dead as you are to poor Charlie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  Many loyal field hands also refused to avail themselves of the new freedom, but the hordes of "trashy free issue niggers," who were causing most of the trouble, were drawn largely from the field-hand class.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  He said they could strain a point about Mr. O'Hara bein a loyal Union sympathizer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  He was a fightin Irishman and a Southern gentleman and as loyal a Confederate as ever lived.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  He was honest and he was loyal, he was patient and he was hard working, but certainly he was not quality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  And Melanie, bewildered, broken hearted but still loyal, did not try to repair it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  To keep in power he's been desperately manufacturing Klan outrage stories where none exist, telling of loyal Republicans being hung up by the thumbs and honest darkies lynched for rape.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
12  Melanie had known--and yet, she had remained her loyal friend.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
13  Her hostess had not been included in the Duchess's invitation, though she herself had made the most loyal efforts in that direction.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
14  The embarrassed but loyal Vida Sherwin unbuttoned her high black shoes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Sam Clark was no more loyal than girl librarians she knew in St. Paul, the people she had met in Chicago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  He was a loyal, distinguished and very competent civil servant.
2  The company has built up a loyal customer base.
3  Mosk, though a loyal liberal Democrat, demurred, citing the right of free political association.
4  The black vote is astonishingly loyal to the Democratic Party.
5  I don't feel loyal to this company any longer.
6  We assured him of our loyal support.
7  They had remained loyal to the president.
8  When he fails, you cannot do more for him, but you can be loyal.
9  His consistent support of the party has proved that he is a stalwart and loyal member.
10  The vassal swore that he would be loyal to the king forever.
11  You should want a smart critique from the loyal opposition, and Phil Zelikow and Peter Feaver are certainly qualified.
12  After December's parliamentary election it's dominated by deputies loyal to the Kremlin.