How to Use duchy in a Sentence

duchy

noun

• When Charles becomes king, the duchy will pass to William.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2020
• The duchy and the title, Duke of Cornwall, has been passed down to the heir to the throne ever since.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• The Queen is not the only one in the family with a duchy to her name, though.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 11 Aug. 2018
• And what happens when Prince William inevitably takes over the duchy?
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2020
• The story is set in 1619, in the German duchy of Württemberg.
  — Wyatt Mason, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• According to the Prince of Wales' website, Charles earned $24 million a year through the duchy.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2022
• Is the duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) huddling in a giant bomb crater?
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• When there is no legitimate son of the sovereign, the duchy reverts to the Crown.
  — Town & Country, 11 Feb. 2023
• Different from the duchies, the Crown Estate is managed by the government and its profits go to the state treasury.
  — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• This is currently Prince Charles, who is the longest serving Duke since the duchy was created in 1337.
  — CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
• So this toast is to wish a happy birthday to my son, in every respect a duchy original.
  — Cierra Williams, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2018
• Land owned by the Crown was incorporated as a new duchy, and Edward’s son became the first Duke of Cornwall.
  — Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
• In 1906, Finland, then a duchy of Russia, was the first country to give women full political rights to both vote and run for office.
  — Naomi Moriyama and William Doyle, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
• Apparently, Madeline doesn’t want to give her duchy a heads up before popping over to the Parisian office.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2021
• The capital overlooks the great lake of Seidhe Llygad and with its white marble and ivory exteriors, the city stands as a beacon for the duchy.
  — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
• In other words, tribal lands were dotted with little duchies of non-Indian land.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
• Richard would get Aquitaine, and Geoffrey would marry the only daughter and heir of the Duke of Brittany and eventually inherit the duchy.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2018
• The duchy itself does not pay corporation tax or capital gains tax.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• Germany was once a grab bag of principalities, duchies, and free cities, as well as juggernaut states such as Prussia.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 3 Jan. 2020
• William, who studied agriculture and how to run an estate in special classes at Cambridge in 2014, will be expected to maintain the thriving duchy.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2022
• Meldings must be preceded by meetings, of course, and the meetings took place in Jena, a university town in the German duchy of Saxe-Weimar with a population of 4,500 or so.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022
• In addition, the duchy promotes Charles' long-time interests in efforts to achieve sustainable markets and fight climate change.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
• Its claim on the lands taken by Yermak and his Cossacks transformed Muscovy, a second-tier duchy, into the world’s largest continental empire.
  — The Economist, 21 Dec. 2019
• That duchy includes extensive property holdings that yielded $28 million last year, some $6.5 million of which went to his sons, William and Harry.
  — TheWeek, 2 Feb. 2020
• Consider the hectares and hectares of fences and hedges, often erected at considerable cost to transform a yard, and certainly a pool, into an owner’s sylvan duchy.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
• From the 10th to the 13th century, the principality or duchy of Polotsk was the center of an early Slavic power, long before the rise of Muscovy, the precursor of modern Russia.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 29 June 2019
• The grand duchy didn’t contribute to the Financial Stability Board’s annual study of global trends and risks in shadow banking, the non-bank lending that helped trigger the 2008 credit crisis.
  — John Glover, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017
• In the 16th century rulers across Europe introduced new laws to make sorcery punishable by death—and the trials moved from ecclesiastical to secular courts, such as in duchies and towns.
  — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• During the outing, the first official royal engagement he's ever undertaken in his duchy of Dalarna, Prince Gabriel went to work painting a birdhouse that will be displayed in the nature reserve.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• In addition to being one of Europe’s most famous writers, Goethe served for decades as a government official in Saxe-Weimar, a small duchy whose ruler recruited him as an all-purpose adviser.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024