How to Use regency in a Sentence

regency

noun

• The people supported the regency.
• Peace was restored during the regency.
• The decor ranges from Hollywood regency to space age to ultra modern.
  — Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 17 Apr. 2018
• At the waistline, which was cut slightly high, was a belt with a long sash made of blush pink satin accented with a regency buckle of paste stones.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Today This tropical pattern is ideal for a regency look or as an accent to pair with stripes and solids.
  — Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Nov. 2021
• The cast, which is usually all white in these kinds of period shows, is mixed — as if regency England and the colonies had all mixed together.
  — Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• For those wondering, regency romances take place around the early 1800s.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Penelope Featherington, from Bridgerton with this yellow ball gown fit for the regency era.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• At the secret ball, guests will don regency garb, choose a title, and enter the Bridgerton family's social circle.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 28 June 2021
• Herman Suherman, the head of Cianjur regency, said the death toll reached 56 as of Monday evening.
  — Firman Taufiq and Edna Tarigan, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
• Ultimately, there are three people of colour in this love story, which period and regency-era dramas rarely represent.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• Two audacious, buck-the-rules queens plunked into the stuffy confines of the regency-era TV romance — what could possibly go wrong?
  — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• With the final part of season 3 of Bridgerton finally upon us, a new character has entered the throes of regency.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 13 June 2024
• Fearful of meeting the same fate, Antoine readily yielded the regency to Catherine.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• It’s been great to see that audience really embrace the experience, bringing the live music, that regency era and then breaking down the hurdles.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 25 May 2022
• Set a few hundred years before everyone’s favorite regency romp, the series shares similar tropes, like naughty royals, saucy escapades, and modern songs remixed on a lute.
  — Lucy Ford, TIME, 23 May 2024
• In July of 1507, Juana handed over the regency of Castile to her father.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 June 2019
• Donggala is a sprawling regency that sits on both sides of a narrow bay, where the shores were devastated by tsunami waves as high as 6 meters (almost 20 feet).
  — Tatan Syuflana, The Seattle Times, 3 Oct. 2018
• Crafted with elements of iridescent modern luxury and a classic silhouette, the gown offered a formfitting style with a regency-era design.
  — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• With coronavirus restrictions still in place, the regency romance with Jane Austen-like storytelling and soapy drama was a stay-at-home fix — a little steam to heat up the long, cold winter.
  — Brittany Anas, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
• This continued throughout his regency, which lasted until his father died in 1820, after which he was crowned George IV.
  — Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Styling her light brown hair in a romantic updo with a coronet braid and curly tendrils framing her face, the birthday girl leaned into a regency-era aesthetic with a diaphanous floor-length coat that could be straight out of Bridgerton.
  — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 Feb. 2026
• The only time a regency has been instituted was for George III who was deemed mentally incapable of carrying out the duties of state.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022
• The disaster, among the deadliest in the sport’s history, occurred Saturday night at a packed stadium in East Java’s Malang regency.
  — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2022
• The program, in Cianjur regency, West Java, is part of the district's effort to increase the number of vaccines administered to citizens age 45 and over.
  — Amy Sood, CNN, 17 June 2021
• The details of Ahhotep’s regency are sketchy in places (and there is still considerable confusion over her and her son’s relationship with another queen named Ahhotep II).
  — National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2019
• Islamic State also tried to establish a ministate of its own in the Indonesian regency of Poso, on Sulawesi island, in 2015.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 7 June 2018
• What makes the appointment baffling is Mojtaba’s total lack of public profile, let alone the religious qualifications that once underpinned the idea of clerical leadership as God’s vice-regency on Earth.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026
• Monsoon rains have been hammering the area for the last week, bringing destruction and complicating rescue efforts in six regencies of North Sumatra, according to the Associated Press and Al Jazeera.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025