How to Use principality in a Sentence

principality

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  • Few teams have had a more up-and-down decade than the club from the glitzy principality.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 1 May 2021
  • The boy, who is the couple’s second child, will be tenth in line for the principality’s throne.
    — Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 22 May 2018
  • England, France and a pair of German principalities—teamed up to sack the Netherlands and seize its colonies.
    — The Economist, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The new portrait will go sale in boutiques and shops in the principality on Wednesday.
    — Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The principality to which the town belonged would spend the next 250 years as a vassal state to the Golden Horde but not without more conflict and death.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But the visitors made a bright start in the principality and took a shock 16th-minute lead through South African Lebo Mothiba.
    — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Tempelhof Field was once the world’s largest airport, the same size as the principality of Monaco.
    — Joyce Lee, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The princess wore the jeweled badge on a red and white sash—referencing the official colors of the principality's flag—over her dress.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Their baby girl arrives as 16th in line for the principality's throne.
    — Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The principality club, unbeaten in 17 in the league, are seven points ahead of Lyon and Marseille.
    — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Germany was once a grab bag of principalities, duchies, and free cities, as well as juggernaut states such as Prussia.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The winger has picked up a lot of interest, but nothing concrete has started for his exit from the principality just yet.
    — SI.com, 7 June 2018
  • Like the vast majority of the population here, most of the principality’s Jews were born abroad.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The Principality of Sealand is located on a floating platform the size of a small oil rig seven nautical miles off the coast of England.
    — Shlomo Angel, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Rainier needed a wife who could have children because, under a 1918 treaty with Paris, the principality would revert to France if his bloodline died out.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Smolensk opted to surrender and pay tribute to the Khanate, but 18 other cities—including Moscow and the capital of the principality that, at the time, ruled Yaroslavl—fell to fire and the sword.
    — Wired, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Although Louis does not bear the formal title of prince, the eldest son of Princess Stéphanie (and first of her three children to wed) is currently 15th in the principality’s line of succession.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2019
  • To celebrate the Prince, who created the festival, an open-air circus parade — one of the largest in modern days — will march across the principality, starting from the palace.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Pretenders claiming to represent the duwailat, or principalities, that made up the British protectorate of Aden are dusting off old flags.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • His name was Kampila, of the tiny principality of Kampili—Kampila Raya, raya being the regional version of raja, king.
    — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Lemar's performances for the principality club have made him a target for many clubs around Europe and Atleti are racing to get a deal done before the move can be hijacked by anyone else.
    — SI.com, 3 June 2018
  • Shoehorned between Spain and France, the tiny, landlocked principality of Andorra is draped over 180 square miles of the Pyrenees mountains.
    — Erik Johnson, Car and Driver, 28 June 2017
  • With her backing, the government of the principality, wedged between France and Italy, erects a white tent each January in a public park next to the tiny Monaco heliport.
    — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Sliding behind the wheel conjures visions of pulling up to the valet at the Casino de Monte-Carlo, rather than racing through the principality's winding streets in a Formula 1 car.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Just as Sofia is poised to make a risky bid to change the future of wine in her Spanish principality, Aish blows up their worlds by drunkenly revealing an explicit hit song is about her.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2020
  • From the 10th to the 13th century, the principality or duchy of Polotsk was the center of an early Slavic power, long before the rise of Muscovy, the precursor of modern Russia.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 29 June 2019
  • Thankfully, though, Rainier’s son, the present ruler Prince Albert, has just reopened his family’s collection in a brand-new site, right at the principality’s heart.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In the case concerning the judge, prosecutors say Sarkozy offered to pull strings to get the judge a privileged post in Monaco, the tiny but rich sovereign principality on the French Riviera.
    — Kim Willsher, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Higuain netted twice in the 2-0 first leg victory in the principality, doubling his tally from 24 previous matches in the knockout stages.
    — Ap, USA TODAY, 3 June 2017
  • In 1876, the principalities of Serbia and Montenegro declared a war of independence against the Ottoman Empire.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023

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