How to Use feudal in a Sentence

feudal

adjective

• The town is governed by some rules that seem to come straight from feudal times.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• But the phrase came to mean more than simply a way of escaping feudal bondage.
  — Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
• And what about those feudal lords of the rapidly declining tech era?
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2022
• The feudal calculus lives and breeds, but its habitat is wealth not land.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• Even the feudal days of the early 1900s, most people were full-time employees.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
• Mr Abe comes from Yamaguchi, known in feudal times as Choshu.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• Landsraad: Despite all the spaceships, the future of Dune is mostly a feudal one.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Judging from the imagery in the trailer above, pre-League Sinnoh region looks a lot like feudal Japan.
  — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2021
• That chipping noise across the NFL is star quarterbacks tearing down the wall of feudal power.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 May 2021
• The visit was a step back in time, and Meenakshi and Amrita were taken with Caldas’s stories of war and feudal lords.
  — Shivani Vora, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
• The feudal houses of Barzani and Talabani—which fought a civil war in the 1990s over UN aid—now tussle over trade routes.
  — The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021
• South Dakota barred any limit at all, akin to feudal England.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• His response might seem callous given that millions of Afghans face a return to the dark ages of feudal Taliban rule.
  — CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• Gone are the tropes of the previous mainline games, replaced with an open world set in the ancient past, heavily based on feudal Japan.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• His wish is granted, the body appearing on the grounds of the mansion that rules over the peasant’s feudal community.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
• Ronin takes its name from the samurai warriors of feudal Japan who did not serve any particular lord.
  — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
• So far the British monarchy, one of the last vestiges of the country’s feudal system, has proved a splendid refutation of Marxism.
  — The Economist, 14 Jan. 2020
• These throwing weapons were used by ninjas, the mysterious covert agents of feudal Japan, 430 years ago.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
• Sicily was making selling citrus fruits around the world after the breakdown of the old feudal order.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
• The book, about a rebellious teen girl living in the English feudal system of 1290, has been beloved by readers for nearly three decades.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
• The ninja were seen as covert agents of feudal Japan, who relied on espionage and strategy.
  — David Aaro, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2020
• This year's samurai theme honors the military caste that rose to prominence in feudal Japan over many centuries.
  — Kimi Robinson, azcentral, 18 Feb. 2020
• The true story of the first and only African samurai in feudal Japan who rose from being a slave for the Jesuits to fighting as a samurai in the unification of Japan.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• The Count has recently abolished the feudal droit du seigneur, the legendary right of the master of an estate to sleep with his female servants on their wedding night.
  — Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• That was before the rules kicked in, before the fortresses had been erected and their feudal lords had exiled anyone who dared deviate too much from the norm.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
• Unclaimed property laws date back to feudal England, when the Crown was quick to seize control of land owned by citizens who had no heirs.
  — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2019
• In 16th-century Japan, the death of a feudal lord is covered up through the use of a double, a petty thief who bears an uncanny resemblance to him.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 12 May 2022
• Previously, in many feudal estates, a widow had rights to parts of her husband's holdings, as well as the right to glean crops from other fields.
  — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• Fines date back to the Middle Ages, when feudal lords would let people pay to get out of their stockades – an alternative to being in custody.
  — Courtney E. Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2024
• Some of the living bridges of Cherrapunji grew when the feudal kingdom of Ahom, invaders from what is today Myanmar, ruled over the Meghalaya hills.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024