Example Sentences

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Hamilton, for example, declared that the new nation should have a kinglike executive to govern as long as he was on "good behavior."

From Time Magazine Archive

Suharto's kinglike grip on power mesmerizes all his subjects, and so far no one has dared to openly challenge him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Standing before the biggest and the oldest and the most kinglike of them all, I suddenly had an idea.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

"She speaks ever kinglike, and kinglike will I answer her, so she bring no request unworthy herself or me."

From The Talisman by Scott, Walter, Sir

A man adjusted to his hard circumstances; and bearing himself manlike and kinglike among them.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas