How to Use khanate in a Sentence

khanate

noun

• Ruled for centuries by an independent khanate, Khiva has, at first glance, little to do with Karakalpakstan.
  — Michael Snyder, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2025
• Decline and legacy The Pax Mongolica began to unravel during the 14th century as cooperation among the Mongol khanates weakened.
  — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026
• With very few exceptions, an end was declared, not only to empires, but also to city-states, duchies, principalities, emirates, sultanates, caliphates, khanates, agencies, princely states, colonies, suzerains, dependencies, mandates, tributaries, condominia and protectorates.
  — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
• For generations, the Sea had been the lifeblood of the Karakalpak people, who lived as seminomadic pastoralists under various rulers, including khanates, tsars, the USSR, and now independent Uzbekistan.
  — Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
• The Ilkhanate fragmented after 1335, the Yuan dynasty was overthrown by the Ming dynasty in 1368, and the remaining khanates gradually developed increasingly independent political interests.
  — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026
• After Islam arrived in the eighth century and the Mongolians came and went, the 14th century gave rise to a far-reaching empire, which dissolved into separate Islamic kingdoms, called khanates and emirates, and eventually yielded to 67 years of Soviet rule before the country’s independence in 1991.
  — Daphne Beal, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2017