REIGNING in a Sentence

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51-year-old Tuheitia Paki is the eldest son of the previous monarch, who died last week at the age of 75, after a reign of 40 years.

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 Meanings and Examples of REIGNING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reigning
 a.  exercising power or authority; currently ruling or holding a position
Classic Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  But no man ventured directly to gainsay a pledge filled to the health of the reigning monarch.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  To my certain knowledge he has acted on behalf of three of the reigning houses of Europe in very vital matters.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
4  , the grand age; a theatre, the temple of Melpomene; the reigning family, the august blood of our kings; a concert, a musical solemnity; the General Commandant of the province, the illustrious warrior, who, etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
5  To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of monasticism.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
6  A very neat toilet table in the reigning style.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
7  The less zealous English thought they conferred a sufficient honor on its unsullied fountains, when they bestowed the name of their reigning prince, the second of the house of Hanover.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  reigning king, and those given by the Americans that of the.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
9  A Dervish, or Turkish priest, drew his scimitar on Bajazet, father of the Sultan now reigning, and if he did not wound him, it was from no lack either of daring or of opportunity.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
10  The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
11  This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult within him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
12  Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, reigned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
13  The same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
14  The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena on the horizon.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
15  Madeleine had reigned over all and directed all.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
Example Sentence:
1  The football superpowers of England, Spain, and Italy provide four teams each including the reigning champions Liverpool, Real Madrid and AC Milan.
2  The reigning champion will defend her title tonight.
3  The bicycle reigned supreme as Britain's most popular mode of transport.
4  Confusion reigned about how the debate would end.
5  The gallant soldiers lost their lives so that peace might reign again.
6  Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love.
7  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
8  His reign has never been considered particularly noteworthy.
9  51-year-old Tuheitia Paki is the eldest son of the previous monarch, who died last week at the age of 75, after a reign of 40 years.
10  The new king began his reign by restoring order that the lawless interregnum had destroyed.
11  After a year without defeat, the team now reigns supreme as the finest in the country.
12  At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit ; and at forty, the judgment.
13  It is an event in which she reigns supreme.
14  The Queen reigns but does not rule.
15  The Queen of Britain reigns, but she does not rule or govern.