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Example sentences for "rule over"

  • They required a Spaniard to rule over them.

  • They desired a German to rule over them,--one who would understand the German character, and enter heartily into the feelings of the people.

  • So rule over them, that men shall commend, and not censure me for the part I am now acting.

  • He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god: whoever acknowledges [him] he will increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price.

  • Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.

  • Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints.

  • It is granted, that every single congregation hath equal power, one as much as another, and that there is no subordination of one to another; according to that common and known axiom, An equal hath no power or rule over an equal.

  • Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, and not only you but your son and your son's son after you, for you have saved us from the power of the Midianites.

  • Thus fell Samaria, and with Samaria the kingdom of Israel, and with Israel the last of the states which had aspired, with some prospect of success, to rule over Syria.

  • Savage fighting Heptarchies: their fighting is an ascertainment, who has the right to rule over whom; that out of such waste-bickering Saxondom a peacefully coöperating England may arise.

  • The queen, Basina, welcomed him even more warmly than her husband, and hardly had Childeric returned home, on being recalled by the tribe some years later to rule over them, than she followed him.

  • Gordius, the first king, was called from following his wagon to rule over Phrygia.

  • Later, they chose David to rule over Israel.

  • But Spaniards who come from Spain to rule over us and plunder us, what know they of us, or what care we for them?

  • They thronged the street in which stood the private residence of their chosen leader, shouting that they would have none other than him to rule over them, and calling upon him to come forth and speak to them.

  • We are a free people, therefore we must take example from a people who are not free, and must have a Junta to rule over us.

  • My countrymen will not tamely look on while you and the Spaniards arrange between you who is to rule over us.

  • Savage fighting Heptarchies: their fighting is an ascertainment, who has the right to rule over whom; that out of such waste-bickering Saxondom a peacefully cooperating England may arise.

  • Now when the messengers came there, and delivered their errand to the girl, she answered, that she would not throw herself away even to take a king for her husband, who had no greater kingdom to rule over than a few districts.

  • North in Throndhjem he gave Halfdan the Black, Halfdan the White, and Sigrod land to rule over.

  • He gave Earl Hakon Strind district to rule over as earl.

  • Had he come to my country I would have given him a city to rule over, and I think that nothing would have parted us, one from the other.

  • And thereafter, if we win to our homes he will treat thee as his own royal son and will give thee seven cities to rule over.

  • But you can put another King to rule over you.

  • Leofric and Siward would have looked upon him as an undeserving interloper, who had no right to rule over them.

  • We learn that the folk thought better of their conqueror at last, that Cnut was remembered kindly, and the word went from mouth to mouth that England might do worse than take this famous Christian prince to rule over her.

  • This was a return to the fashions of Rolf's day, when the adventurers boasted on the banks of the Seine that they had no king to rule over them, and were all equal; that they only asked for what they could win with their swords.

  • This simple, beautiful fact, there, on the first leaf of the Bible, solves the problem, whence and how has man right to rule over man.

  • Nevertheless, he has authority, from God, to rule over you.

  • You have been wont to answer, "They will not have God to rule over them.

  • What he said at first was very much like what John the Baptist said: "Give up your sins, and begin to live a new life, for God has come to rule over you!

  • You will tell the people what you have heard me say--that God has come to the earth to rule over men's hearts.

  • This was how he preached: "Give up your sins, and begin a new life at once, for God is coming to rule over men!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rule over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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