How to Use fealty in a Sentence
fealty
noun- He swore fealty to the king.
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Now they have been required to pledge their fealty to Beijing.
—Suzanne Sataline, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2021
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Trump’s demands of fealty to his false electoral claims are deeply troubling.
—Ashley Parker, Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2022
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Is that kind of fealty that the framers of the Constitution had in mind?
—Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 30 June 2026
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Stating your fealty to this silly nation will make the gravy taste that much better.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2022
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The film wants to pay enough fealty to the past while also carving out something new for the future.
—Josh Spiegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2025
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Then Colum joins him on the ground, promising Dougal his fealty in times of war.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025
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Ted Cruz's fealty to the current president* is proof enough of that.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 June 2017
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But there’s also the issue of Sessions’s fealty to red states.
—Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 8 June 2018
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The canine rises up on its hind legs in an almost prayer-like pose that fuses desire and fealty.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
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The desire for party fealty is strong, but not as strong as the need to win in the general election.
—Kristin Kanthak, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
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And this is fealty not just to Trump, but to an idea of being anti-democracy.
—NBC News, 12 Dec. 2021
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In past coronations, there was a segment when dukes and other nobles would to swear fealty to the new monarch.
—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
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And even if there’s still room for visionaries to shake things up in the strata below, why all the dank fealty?
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
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The fighters, who inspire both fear and fealty, enjoy cultlike status in the camp.
—Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
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In those days, the son nurtured his ego through zealous service to his father, but Mario saw that fealty as a flaw.
—Dan Zak, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
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Trump critics, meanwhile, hold Pence's past fealty to the ex-president against him.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
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And when these candidates fail to win office, their fealty to party doctrine brings its own rewards.
—Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
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But the – the issue of fealty to the Constitution is not a small matter.
—CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
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The notion of blood has many meanings, some tied to violence, some to death – and some to belonging and fealty and love.
—Emiene Wright, charlotteobserver, 14 June 2018
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Over the past five months, Spicer has tied himself into knots to prove his fealty to the President.
—Chris Lu, Time, 26 June 2017
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How to think about thinking about cabbage Trends demand both fealty and novelty.
—Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2026
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The campaigns turned less on policy differences than on fealty to Trump.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 6 May 2026
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Bel is noble to a fault, but his fealty to the Galactic Empire is waning.
—José Adorno, BGR, 5 Jan. 2023
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Even in Windsor, which has provided the backdrop to so much royal pageantry, fealty to the firm is not a given.
—Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2023
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At the same time, Beijing is dangling carrots to others that show some fealty to China.
—Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
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Vulcan combines the Bronze Age worship of forge and sword with modern fealty to guns and state power.
—Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 21 June 2017
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At least two of the attackers had expressed fealty to ISIS in the past.
—Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
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For many on the Christian Right, anything but fealty to Israel is an affront to their faith.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 17 June 2025
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Kin’s dual viewpoints obscure where Jones’s fealty lies, but only slightly.
—Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2026
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