How to Use sovereign in a Sentence

sovereign

1 of 2 noun

• Charles is the 40th sovereign to be crowned in the abbey — and, at 74, the oldest.
  — Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
• The mood was somber, as the whole nation mourned the death of their sovereign.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 20 Sep. 2022
• Charles was the 40th sovereign to be enthroned in the abbey -- and, at 74, the oldest.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2023
• The turkey is unquestionably the king of the castle, the sovereign of the realm, the star of the show.
  — al, 20 Nov. 2022
• Charles would be the 40th sovereign to be crowned there.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
• For 20 years, the role of the sovereign has belonged to Fred Nelson of Glen Burnie.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
• But it’s the sovereign’s weakness as a ruler that disgusts the queen.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• In the case of a nation’s beloved sovereign lying in state, the crowd would be immense.
  — Richard Morgan, Town & Country, 14 Sep. 2022
• The sovereign's orb and spectre both date back to the coronation of Charles II in 1661.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
• The Queen was the first reigning sovereign to set foot on Australian soil.
  — ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
• In one portrait, the new sovereign of the United Kingdom is seen sitting in the Throne Room at the palace.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
• When there is no legitimate son of the sovereign, the duchy reverts to the Crown.
  — Town & Country, 11 Feb. 2023
• Even a sovereign has only two hands, so near the end of the ceremony, the monarch has to set the Orb on the altar to hold the two scepters.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• The Marquess oversaw the sovereign’s costume changes, the Duke of Norfolk showed him what to do.
  — Dr. Tessa Dunlop, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
• The start of the working week is another day steeped in the historic pageantry and pomp that follows the death of a British sovereign.
  — Mike Corder, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
• It’s the thing her father raised her her entire life to know and pursue as a sovereign.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2022
• By law, the seafloor surrounding the United Kingdom up to 12 miles off the coast is the property of the sovereign.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 22 Sep. 2022
• The Sovereign’s Orb is then placed in the right hand of the monarch, which represents the sovereign’s power and the Christian world.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
• Those legal precepts say that the shore is held in public trust and belongs to the sovereign.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• So the issue became about Jerusalem, and people toyed with all sorts of ideas, even that God will be the sovereign over the Temple Mount.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• While there, the public is encouraged to pay their respects to the late sovereign.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022
• The most important head at any coronation is that of the sovereign but the queen consort is crowned, too.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• The quote also cannily speaks to her unique place in history as the first sovereign of the TV age.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• But Charles, 73, sat not on the sovereign’s throne, which had been removed, but on the consort’s throne, which had been used by his father, Prince Philip.
  — Danica Kirka, ajc, 10 May 2022
• The sovereign’s orb is a golden globe surmounted by a cross.
  — WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• Now 10 former sovereigns have been laid to rest at the location.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Apr. 2018
• In my view, the tribes either are or are not separate sovereigns.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 12 May 2020
• In the hands of a powerful sovereign such as China, the new software is an effective way to launch the yuan into the big leagues.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
• Or should Britons gird themselves for the passing of another sovereign?
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• The first contains standard coins symbolizing a gift from the sovereign for food and clothing, and the second is filled with Maundy coins amounting to the monarch’s age, the royal family’s website said.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024

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sovereign

2 of 2 adjective

• The government's sovereign duty is to protect the rights of its citizens.
• The mood was somber, as the whole nation mourned the death of their sovereign.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2019
• And that would be the fate of the holy sites in Jerusalem if Israel weren't sovereign there.
  — Fox News, 11 Mar. 2018
• His son, José Filomeno, ran the $5bn sovereign wealth fund.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• One idea from Britain is to start a sovereign wealth fund.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 10 June 2020
• But now the anthem, and not just the sovereign, may be in need of saving.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
• It will be backed by sovereign wealth funds in the Persian Gulf.
  — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2021
• Schwarzkopf is sovereign, in hundreds of songs, and not a few opera roles.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 May 2022
• SoFi just raised $500 million last month in a round led by the Qatari sovereign wealth fund.
  — Theodore Schleifer, Vox, 11 June 2019
• The yen surged while yields on Japanese sovereign debt climbed across the curve.
  — Bloomberg.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Poland and France, for instance, have raised funds through the issuance of sovereign green bonds.
  — Shreyans Jain, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2022
• But looking at the core idea, rather than the specifics: this is a proposal for a sovereign wealth fund.
  — Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• And as any sovereign would be, Sasha has been busy lately.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 27 June 2018
• Though it is not personally owned by the monarch, it is held in trust by the king as sovereign.
  — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• That means Russia is staring in the face of a sovereign debt default.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 23 May 2022
• Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest of its kind, is worth $1 trillion alone.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2018
• Nigeria was a sovereign state with a G.D.P. of more than $470 billion.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• The state has claimed sovereign immunity—the right of a ruler to not be subject to a lawsuit.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2019
• The citizen may no longer have been sovereign, but the consumer was.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• The initial public offering of Aramco is on track for next year, the head of the sovereign fund said.
  — Angelina Rascouet, Houston Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2017
• Yet all is not well at some Middle East sovereign wealth funds.
  — Dominic Dudley, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• That is a fear that is not well hedged by a large allocation to sovereign bonds.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 13 Mar. 2021
• From sovereign bonds to crypto to tech stocks, the quarter that just ended was a rough one for investors.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2022
• Foy, on the other hand, was only slated to play the young sovereign for two seasons.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Oct. 2017
• At the same time, his advisers would be looking for the right time and place for Charles' first overseas trip as sovereign.
  — Danica Kirka, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
• Much of that will go to the country’s sovereign wealth fund, a national nest egg worth more than $1 trillion.
  — Emily Rauhala, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2022
• The Treasury provides a fraction of these profits in the form of the sovereign grant to support royal duties.
  — Sylvia Hui, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• The airline will be owned by the country's sovereign-wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 13 Mar. 2023
• Google workers note that for security reasons, tech companies often have very limited insight, if any, into what occurs on the sovereign cloud servers of their government clients.
  — Billy Perrigo, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
• In part, the state said, governmental entities are protected from being sued under a legal doctrine known as sovereign immunity.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024