How to Use sovereignty in a Sentence

sovereignty

noun

• Don’t gloss over the facts in the name of some false sense of sovereignty over choice.
  — Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
• War has taught him that the pain of memory is the price of sovereignty.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• Point one of the plan was: respect the sovereignty of all nations.
  — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2023
• The first ruled for 44 years; the second’s sovereignty is at 68 years and counting.
  — Dallas News, 24 Dec. 2020
• None of the three films touch on sovereignty in Hong Kong, though a Taiwan flag can be seen in one.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Oct. 2022
• Over the years, Beijing has tried to claim sovereignty over 90 percent of the region.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 24 July 2023
• Well, food sovereignty is the realization of the right to food.
  — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• This is a prime example of the ways in which tribal sovereignty is weaponized.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2022
• And now on Friday, the Supreme Court stripped away women’s sovereignty over their bodies for the first time in 50 years.
  — Edward Sullivan, Fortune, 28 June 2022
• That is really at the heart of the movement and at the heart of food justice, is achieving food sovereignty.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• It’s often been used by critics of Māori who seek equal rights and sovereignty.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2021
• China has long claimed sovereignty over the island and has vowed to reunify it with the rest of the mainland by 2027.
  — The Week Staff, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024
• Maine enacted a food sovereignty law, the nation's first of its kind, in 2017.
  — Fox News, 23 Oct. 2021
• Zooming out, my heart kind of goes to achieving food sovereignty.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• The model should likewise serve as a proof of what tribal sovereignty can be at its best.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2021
• Some experts say talking about sovereignty in the context of trade deals misses the point.
  — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
• There is a way to protect the sovereignty of the nation and yet still treat everyone as humans.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
• Fears about the strength and sovereignty of your country’s currency?
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
• The infallible head of the Holy See, in all his sovereignty, saying the quiet part out loud?
  — Fran Tirado, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
• For once, sovereignty has a chance of becoming more than just a buzzword.
  — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2025
• At some point, boundaries are drawn and sovereignty declared.
  — Dan Raviv, Time, 10 Oct. 2023
• The vice president vowed that the U.S. was committed to Ukraine's sovereignty.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2022
• Now, evil threatens the sovereignty of one country and the sanctity of all others.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2022
• Le Pen hit hard on the themes of élitism, protectionism, and sovereignty that had served Trump and Brexit so well.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• During the coronation service, the orb is placed in the right hand of the king or queen as they are invested with the symbols of sovereignty.
  — USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• Iraq, in turn, has described Turkish attacks as in breach of its sovereignty.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
• Within months, the country changed in ways big and small: Hong Kong sovereignty was transferred back to China.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
• Their goal was simple: to regain their own sovereignty.
  — Ibrahim Al-Marashi / Made By History, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
• Speaker after speaker reminded the room that the organization doesn’t command a military force and should not step on Haiti’s sovereignty.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
• Trump will have to accept Ukraine’s right to sovereignty as an indispensable element of the deal, changing Moscow’s approach by using coercion and encouragement.
  — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2025