How to Use fealty in a Sentence

fealty

noun

• He swore fealty to the king.
• 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
• Ted Cruz's fealty to the current president* is proof enough of that.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 June 2017
• 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
• And even if there’s still room for visionaries to shake things up in the strata below, why all the dank fealty?
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• In those days, the son nurtured his ego through zealous service to his father, but Mario saw that fealty as a flaw.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• So now Trump fealty comes down to a three-legged stool: The election was rigged, the insurrection was fine and Putin is a genius.
  — Gloria Borger, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022
• In past coronations, there was a segment when dukes and other nobles would to swear fealty to the new monarch.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• The notion of blood has many meanings, some tied to violence, some to death – and some to belonging and fealty and love.
  — Emiene Wright, charlotteobserver, 14 June 2018
• Trump’s demands of fealty to his false electoral claims are deeply troubling.
  — Ashley Parker, Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2022
• This fealty to corporate progress could, in theory, be a bummer—but the Alien films have always managed to be a pretty good time.
  — Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
• Maybe he’s been reading the comments and wanted to pledge his fealty officially.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024