How to Use kingship in a Sentence

kingship

noun

• He has all the traits required for kingship.
• The timing is awkward for Charles, who is in the very early days of his kingship.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
• Like the would-be pride of the Royal Navy, Charles has also been fated to linger close to port rather than taking to the high seas of kingship.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2022
• The story is of Seretse Khama, heir to the kingship of an African people, who was attending school in Britain during the late 1940s.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
• The god Lugh is the one most associated with kingship in Ireland, says Lehane.
  — CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• In ancient Mesopotamia, the lion was regarded as a symbol of kingship.
  — Andrew Katz, TIME.com, 17 July 2017
• The backbone of these docs is ITN’s extensive royal archive that goes back 65 years to an age of kingship and royal stiff upper lips.
  — Steve Clarke, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021
• Throwing over a kingship was only the beginning of his folly.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 27 June 2022
• Apparently Varys swapped the real Aegon in King's Landing with a peasant baby to keep him safe and train him for kingship.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2017
• After the family’s return, the young Leka fashioned for himself a course in kingship.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
• Simba is being trained to take over his father's kingship when Mufasa passes and is betrothed to a lioness named Nala.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2018
• Tragically, during the kingship, there was rarely any unity.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• Finally, the very idea of kingship itself was fabricated.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• Being at such pains required constant travel, a point that Mr. Parker stresses to illustrate the nature of Renaissance kingship.
  — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• In the Sumerian tradition, kingship isn’t tied to a permanent capital.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2021
• Mesopotamian kingship was conceived as being descended from heaven, an ancient precursor to what would become, a few thousand years on, a corrosive doctrine of the divine right of kings.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• With all of its complexities, kingship has positive features.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• The same Yehuda who had relinquished leadership when giving away his ei’ravon to Tamar assumes leadership by declaring his readiness to be the arev, becoming the worthy forerunner of Israel’s kingship.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• Born the outcast son of a Zulu king, his unlikely rise to power and ultimate accomplishment of uniting multiple tribes across vast stretches of Africa in the early 19th century pushed his kingship to become legend.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
• Ostrich eggs are displayed as symbols of kingship, resurrection, and safekeeping.
  — National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2020
• Under the early years of his kingship, England underwent key governmental and military developments that helped establish the nation as a global force.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2022
• The institution of hereditary kingship is irrational and impractical, sustained in the present era only through a willful combination of public pageantry and concealed mystery.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
• In short, with the aim of restoring a sense of community, nationhood, kingship, and hereditary leadership, fascism presented itself as a return to English traditions, not as an alien innovation.
  — Martin Pugh, Slate Magazine, 14 Apr. 2017
• Aurangzeb’s formative years were shaped by the bloody, fratricidal dynamic of Mughal succession, with childhood competition among princes culminating in do-or-die struggles for kingship.
  — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• Through its iconography, Mr. Wilkinson examines ancient Egypt’s remarkably durable ideology of kingship.
  — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• Political forms followed a closely parallel evolution: egalitarianism, private property, kingship (often just ceremonial), and the bureaucratic state.
  — George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024