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Example sentences for "potentate"

Lexicographically close words:
potence; potencies; potency; potens; potent; potentates; potentes; potentia; potential; potentialities
  1. That potentate now drew the sword on behalf of Napoleon, and summoned the Italians to struggle for their independence.

  2. His address is the finest I have ever seen, and said by those who have travelled to exceed not only every Prince and Potentate now in being, but even all those whose memory has come down to us.

  3. The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country.

  4. It is then the interest of the enemies of this potentate to secure and publish this letter, so as to make a breach between his country and ours?

  5. The Alliance received the voluntary adhesion of the potentate who had most to gain from it, the Pope.

  6. Moselkatze, until he came into conflict with the emigrant farmers, was a savage potentate of considerable ability.

  7. This potentate dared not, at first, to accept, but appointed Signor Buoncompagni, governor-general of the league of Central Italy.

  8. This potentate gave it to be understood, although not in express terms, that the stay of the French troops at Rome was dependent on the departure of the exiled monarch.

  9. To speak the truth, most mighty potentate of the mountains," replied the stroller, "I asked no farther questions where such answers seemed amongst the most common forms of speech.

  10. He is threatened with unavoidable vengeance, from which no potentate can defend him, if he should ever betray the Order.

  11. This potentate exercised a nominal authority over the pastoral tribes which roamed on the Steppe between the Crimea and the Russian frontier, but he had neither the power nor the desire to control their aggressive tendencies.

  12. I could see it very plainly through a button-hole in the cloak of the potentate who had seized me and hidden me in his pocket.

  13. Bacchus is the tutelary demon of the Mahommedans, and Mars the guardian potentate of the Christians.

  14. Mudjekee´wis=, the father of Hiawatha, and subsequently potentate of the winds.

  15. But with such a potentate as the Emperor I do not correspond," continued Zagloba, "lest he might apply to me a certain proverb which I heard in Lithuania.

  16. He is a great potentate and warrior; he will conquer the Tartars, restrain the Turks, drive the Northerners away from the boundaries; and we together with Sweden will flourish.

  17. I still knew nothing who he was, further than that he was a potentate of some foreign land, bent on establishing some pure and genuine doctrines of Christianity, hitherto only half understood, and less than half exercised.

  18. It was long before I durst look over my shoulder, but, when I did so, I perceived this ruined and debased potentate coming slowly on the same path, and I prayed that the Lord would hide me in the bowels of the earth or depths of the sea.

  19. Do you think the gaining of you to my service is not an attainment worthy of being envied by the greatest potentate in Christendom?

  20. Those who suffer under a sense of guilt must have recourse to a higher and more generous Potentate than I.

  21. It is not for nothing," he cried, "that I have been for years the companion and the pupil of the bravest and wisest potentate in Europe.

  22. A fine horse is an even more acceptable gift to a potentate than a notable hawk.

  23. Then of a sudden this potentate grew furious.

  24. The sage contrived to purloin the talisman while the khan and his guards slept; but not content with this he gave a further proof of his dexterity by bonneting the slumbering potentate with a bladder.

  25. I had not calculated aright the power of that particular potentate to "draw.

  26. However, they came, possibly in happy ignorance of the potentate who was awaiting them, and than whom there is one only creation of civilized life considered by the London cadger his more natural enemy, that is the policeman.

  27. If I was, certainly my respect for that potentate is not increased, for I should have fancied he would have done something much "bigger" in reply to my challenge than smash up a small chess-table.

  28. You can still see the tree under which the portly potentate sat and daily dispensed sanguinary judgment.

  29. This substantiates the theory that perhaps it did go to the Phoenicians or to a potentate like King Solomon.

  30. Their spirits were supposed to provide a bodyguard to escort the departed potentate safely into the land of the hereafter.

  31. The world has never seen a meaner scoundrel, and we may almost bring ourselves to pity the Kaiser, whom circumstances have forced to accept on equal terms a potentate so verminous.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potentate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chief; chieftain; crown; dynast; emperor; king; majesty; monarch; overlord; paramount; potentate; prince; royal; royalty; ruler; sovereign