How to Use sultanate in a Sentence

sultanate

noun
Definition of sultanatenext
Synonyms for sultanatenext
  • His sultanate ended in 1923.
  • Since the founding of the sultanate in 1755, the monarch has been a man.
    — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The move was good news for the tiny Islamic sultanate of Brunei, which had been at Level 4.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Others, like the tiny Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, the sultanate of Oman, and Sudan, may follow.
    — Trudy Rubin, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The sultanate of Oman long has maintained its distance, serving as a crucial go-between Iran and the West.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2017
  • The former sultanate accounts for more than a quarter of the country’s crude oil reserves.
    — Pooi Koon Chong, Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Photo: Reuters The next king will be elected by the Council of Rulers, which comprises all nine sultanates.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
  • The sultanate's ports also have become a crucial lifeline to Qatar.
    — Jon Gambrell, Fox News, 4 June 2018
  • The sultanate’s ports also have become a crucial lifeline to Qatar.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • The sultanate said it’s also in aid talks with Gulf neighbors, according to its bond prospectus.
    — Farah Elbahrawy, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Muscat, where Avicii died, is the capital of the sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula.
    — Bloomberg.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • In Oman, the sultanate allows thousands of overflights and hundreds of landings a year, while also granting access to ports and its bases.
    — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Oman state television announced that Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, who had served as the sultanate's culture minister, is now the new sultan.
    — Nick Givas, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2020
  • The sultanate requires people to remain quarantined at home for a week after coming into the country.
    — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Flooding and damage remains considerable after the cyclone, the strongest-ever recorded to hit southern Oman and the sultanate’s third-largest city of Salalah.
    — Jon Gambrell, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2018
  • Protests over mass layoffs and Oman's poor economy spread Tuesday to cities across the sultanate, underscoring the financial challenge ahead for this nation a decade on from its Arab Spring protests.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 25 May 2021
  • The slump in oil prices since 2014 has put pressure on the finances of the sultanate, forcing it to join other Gulf countries in tapping international debt markets to plug budget shortfalls.
    — Zainab Fattah, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2017
  • The administration later set up a secret channel to meet with Iranian officials in the Arab sultanate of Oman.
    — Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 17 June 2018
  • The monument was commissioned by Qutbuddin Aibek, who set up the medieval Delhi sultanate in India.
    — Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, 9 Nov. 2019
  • As of September 1, anyone will be able to travel to the sultanate, provided they are fully vaccinated.
    — Dominic Dudley, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Small protests broke out as part of the wider Arab Spring unrest in 2011, revealing discontent over corruption, unemployment and rising prices within the sultanate.
    — NBC News, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The pandemic already saw many foreign workers lose their jobs and leave the sultanate, allowing Omanis to take over some work in the aviation, tourism and services industries.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 25 May 2021
  • Seven of the royal families are hereditary monarchies, with the northern Kedah sultanate one of the oldest unbroken dynasties in the world, dating back to the 12th century.
    — Eileen Ng, The Seattle Times, 23 Jan. 2019
  • The sultanate also allows U.S. military overflights and port visits.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In 1922, Turkish nationalists abolished the sultanate, bringing an end to what was once of history’s most successful empires.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Sultan Qaboos’ outward-looking worldview could not have contrasted more sharply than that of his father, Sultan Said bin Taimur, under whose rule the sultanate more resembled a medieval state.
    — Time, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Sultan Qaboos' outward-looking worldview could not have contrasted more sharply than that of his father, Sultan Said bin Taimur, under whose rule the sultanate more resembled a medieval state.
    — NBC News, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Demonstrations have taken place in areas that have festering grievances in the sultanate, including Salalah, which suffered through years of warfare in the Dhofar rebellion that ended in 1976.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 25 May 2021
  • Omani state television broadcast images of flooded roadways and valleys as the storm churned deeper into the sultanate, its outer edges reaching the neighboring United Arab Emirates.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • But the brutal independence war, and the significant political changes that accompanied it, finally turned the tide against the sultanate.
    — Vanessa H. Larson, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022

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