How to Use queen in a Sentence

queen

1 of 2 noun
  • This ship is the queen of all the ocean liners.
  • She was voted queen of the prom.
  • She was crowned queen of England.
  • If the queen were to step down or die, who would be next in line?
    Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
  • This was where the drag queens and trans people hung out.
    Dean Eastmond, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2017
  • Louis Canales and drag queen Adora during the mid 1990s on South Beach.
    Brooke Henderson, miamiherald, 30 June 2017
  • This queen bee will land nearby, on a tree, shrub, fence post or even a building.
    Cincinnati.com, 2 May 2017
  • My knight could jump everywhere and his queen was stuck.
    Michael Ciamarra, AL.com, 2 July 2017
  • East ruffed and led a diamond, but South picked up the trumps with a finesse and took the rest, pitching a club on dummy’s queen of spades.
    Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2017
  • This is your second movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan, though people might not think of you as being a scream queen.
    Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2017
  • With both players pressed for time, a ferocious display of maneuvering with the heavy pieces (queen and rooks) ensued.
    Michael Ciamarra, AL.com, 11 June 2017
  • Sarah Wesley Lemire is an avid football fan, helicopter parent, movie queen and travel junkie.
    Sarah Wesley Lemire, courant.com, 22 June 2017
  • The final image features the queen seated alongside her only daughter, Princess Anne.
    Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Apr. 2016
  • The Georgian mansion is located on the Sandringham Estate, which is where the queen holidays, and has 10 bedrooms (no big deal).
    Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 1 Nov. 2016
  • Vaulted ceilings make the space feel larger, while the master bedroom accommodates a queen-sized bed and full-height closet.
    Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 21 June 2017
  • But the city also holds Alternative Fashion Week in July, which in past years has included a drag-queen-and-wine pairing.
    Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • Last February, photos of her posing with actual royalty, a six-foot-five, flame-haired drag queen named Olivia Jones, exploded on the web.
    Alex Hawgood, The Cut, 23 June 2017
  • She was feted as a symbol of an ascending India, paraded along with bomb makers and beauty queens.
    Parul Seghal, The Atlantic, 17 June 2017
  • A young but imperious drag queen, Felicia doesn’t work hard to camouflage maleness.
    Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 6 May 2017
  • Picking up his cues from his boss, Spicer came charging out of the gate in his first press briefing, lambasting the media for underestimating the turnout for Trump’s inauguration, an insult to Trump’s size-queen pride.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 June 2017
  • There are a total of 19 different colors to choose from, along with twin, full, queen, and king sizes.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Middleton is the queen of the clear polish look that elevates natural nails with a gleaming finish.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 13 Jan. 2026

queen

2 of 2 verb
  • The last dance, last chance, to skate, as disco queen Donna Summer would put it, is on May 8.
    Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Style up your leggings like the Skims queen herself and be a Kardashian for a night.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The Anglo-Saxon queens that followed had no public role or even the title of queen.
    Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
  • The Anglo-Saxon queens that followed had no public role or even the title of queen.
    Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
  • Giving either queen the victory or the loss would have been warranted.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
  • As expected, fans were thrilled to see the country queen grace their television screens looking as fierce as ever.
    Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The award show's account even wished the country queen a happy birthday with some throwback photos of Dolly's iconic looks throughout the years.
    Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Before the drag queens sashay between booths belting out Whitney Houston, Hamburger Mary’s is, first and foremost, a burger joint.
    Amy Lombard, Bon Appetit, 10 July 2017
  • The pair then queen out from different parts of the house.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025

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