How to Use consort in a Sentence

consort

noun
  • The area where the queen and her consort were most likely buried is now under water.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Most lord mayors have had a partner or spouse to act as their official consort.
    Saskia Solomon, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • And at his side there was his consort, Sheelah -- who was now referred to as Patrick's wife.
    CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Philip is, of course, entitled to a large funeral as the Queen's consort.
    Alex Warner, Marie Claire, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Apparently, the consort had very good taste in jewelry, and had a lot to do with the design.
    Ana Serrano, Glamour, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Sprague had led and written for his string consort for years, but in a more intimate jazz-meets-chamber-music mode.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The palace initially said Camilla would be ‘princess consort’ when Charles was crowned.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 24 June 2026
  • The queen's son Charles now becomes Britain's king and his wife, Camilla, serves as his consort.
    Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The noble consort takes the empress’s place, smirking, and stealthily pushes her down the stairs when no one is watching.
    Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026
  • Ravonna Renslayer is the consort of Kang the Conqueror in the comics.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • The researchers began by collecting and measuring the sperm size of consort and sneaker male squids.
    Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2011
  • For her part, Kate will be known as Queen consort, and will hold the title of Queen Catherine.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And like the consorts who came before her, she was expected to abide by the strict rules and schedules, pomp and circumstance, that defined life at court.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 17 July 2023
  • The empress returns to her chambers to weep, only to be strangled by a eunuch under the noble consort’s orders.
    Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026
  • Sineenat, 35, was the first person to hold the title of royal consort in almost a century.
    Randy Thanthong-Knight, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Fu Hao was a consort of the king, Wu Ding, which is reflected in the show’s display of oracle bones.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Public lives provide markers and milestones for others, and few more so than the Queen and her consort, who have spent more than seven decades in the public eye.
    Catherine Mayer, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Guilfoyle took a somewhat unorthodox approach to life as a political consort.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The queen also paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year after decades of serving as her consort, and to the work of her mother.
    Fox News, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The King and Queen are expected to appear at their first Royal Ascot as monarch and consort in the coming days.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
  • The job of lady-in-waiting to a queen, reigning or consort, dates back hundreds of years to the Middle Ages when ladies helped the queen with such tasks as bathing and dressing.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Theories have swirled that Cixi may have had a hand in the death (officially by suicide) of her son’s pregnant consort, or the arsenic poisoning of her nephew.
    Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Prince Charles sitting in the consort's throne in the Palace of Westminster, looking forlornly across to his mother's crown, which sat in her place.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • Ravonna, in the comics, is the consort of Kang the Conqueror, a time-traveling villain with a long history at Marvel.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • But the king became terminally ill, and even before his death in 1952, Philip had to give up his ship for what would become a life as the queen’s consort.
    Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But Charles, 73, sat not on the sovereign’s throne, which had been removed, but on the consort’s throne, which had been used by his father, Prince Philip.
    Danica Kirka, ajc, 10 May 2022
  • Notably, Camilla will be the first consort to reuse a crown for a coronation, rather than commissioning a new one, since the 18th century.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
  • The family wants the ceremony to be focused on the duke, the longest-serving royal consort in British history, and to his years of service to the nation.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2021
  • At the time, many lamented that the long-serving royal consort didn't make it to his centenary, but Prince Philip once revealed that living for ten decades was not appealing to him.
    Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Princess Grace died at age 52 in 1982, and things changed years later when Charlene became Monaco's next princess consort.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026

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