How to Use fealty in a Sentence

fealty

noun

• He swore fealty to the king.
• Ted Cruz's fealty to the current president* is proof enough of that.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 June 2017
• But Trump's fealty to his base has always been suspicious.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 19 Feb. 2017
• That fealty may not be rational, but what about America is?
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 June 2017
• Vulcan combines the Bronze Age worship of forge and sword with modern fealty to guns and state power.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 21 June 2017
• Flynn, by contrast, never seemed to hold back his enthusiasm or fealty to Trump.
  — Greg Miller, Washington Post, 8 June 2017
• A page-turning lesson in ethics, race and family fealty, the book is now assigned reading at hundreds of colleges and medical schools.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2017
• This is a family only in the Mafia sense of the word, ruled by a ruthless and imperious Don who offers protection in return for fealty.
  — Adele Stan, New Republic, 19 June 2017
• But this isn’t the first time Trump has displayed a bizarre fealty to the Kremlin’s line.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 22 June 2017
• If the ever-loyal House Stark pledges fealty to Rhaenyra, the rest of the North will follow.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
• At least two of the attackers had expressed fealty to ISIS in the past.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• Given the fealty that Kevin McCarthy has now pledged to him.
  — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2021
• In the communal world of the Dark Ages, the worker owed fealty to crown, church, guild and village.
  — Phil Gramm and Mike Solon, WSJ, 23 May 2022
• The Trumps have long been able to count on Mr. Weisselberg’s fealty.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2021
• Instead, one theme will rule them all — fealty to Trump.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• But the – the issue of fealty to the Constitution is not a small matter.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
• McCarthy has bent over backward to pay fealty to Donald Trump in the wake of the 2020 election.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
• Now they have been required to pledge their fealty to Beijing.
  — Suzanne Sataline, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2021
• There’s that fealty again, that love of a compelling story.
  — Andy Meek, Forbes, 9 May 2021
• But there’s also the issue of Sessions’s fealty to red states.
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 8 June 2018
• Over the past five months, Spicer has tied himself into knots to prove his fealty to the President.
  — Chris Lu, Time, 26 June 2017
• Many of these duds had won Trump’s favor for only one reason: fealty to a lie.
  — The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2022
• By making fealty to Trump the sine non qua of GOP identity, the party's leaders have done the same.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 17 Feb. 2022
• The episode ends with Daemon departing on his dragon, Caraxes, as the lords of the realm pledge their fealty to Rhaenyra.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• Over the years, people have cornered John Corbett on the street, at the grocery store, in coffee shops, to swear fealty.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• Out has gone their judgment, and in has come their fealty; where once there were thriving minds, now there are just frayed red hats.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• Out has gone their judgement, and in has come their fealty; where once there were thriving minds, now there are just frayed red hats.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
• And this is fealty not just to Trump, but to an idea of being anti-democracy.
  — NBC News, 12 Dec. 2021
• The secretary of defense or other Pentagon officials might then move to ensure the political fealty of other senior officers.
  — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2024
• Both candidates are very conservative and in the absence of major policy differences, the race has largely turned on their efforts to outmaneuver each other in demonstrating loyalty and fealty to Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024