Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sultans
Noun
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The Hoosiers are kings of the football world, and everyone in Alabama is bowing down in their honor.—
Tim Cowlishaw,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Jan. 2026 -
For context, heading into Thursday night’s action, he was wedged between one-on-one kings James Harden and DeMar DeRozan as the league leaders.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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Known for its perfectly fitting stone bricks, the site was built in the 15th century by the Incas and served as a sanctuary for the nation’s emperors.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
31 Dec. 2025
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For young emperors of ice cream, there’s a jump rope that has ice-cream-cone handles ($12) and a pencil sharpener shaped like an ice-cream truck ($24).—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
15 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Per Architectural Digest, another of the ship’s staircases could be converted into a water slide for the young princes and princess to use.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
12 Jan. 2026
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As an example from the story, Walpole recalled how the three princes realized that a mule was blind in its right eye after observing that only the grass on the left side of the road had been eaten.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
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Created by the famous French jewelry house in the early 20th century, the tiara has been worn by generations of princesses—with one notable exception.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
17 Jan. 2026
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He was invited to fewer and fewer society functions and received a lot less attention from princesses and starlets; there would be no more lectures, no more movies, and no more books.—
David Treuer,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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Demonstrations sparked in late December by anger over economic hardship exploded into mass protests against Iran's Islamic rulers.—
Olivia Young,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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While being given a tour of Lagado, the capital of Balnibari, Gulliver is taken to the Academy of the Projectors, where the rulers hope to profit from the technological wonders of pure science.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Yes, arrest the murderers, drug lords and gang members, thieves and smugglers.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2026
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One fictional and the other real, the drug lords look nonchalant.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Büttner, who is not Jewish, serves as one of 15 state antisemitism czars in Germany, which also has a federal antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein.—
Grace Gilson,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Jan. 2026
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Her assessment of Soviet and later Russian leadership is clear-eyed, seeing the yearning of the Russian people for a hard-nosed protector, like the former tsars, in Russia’s support for Putin.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
7 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Sarah has a chat with the queens that’s totally fine.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2026
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Instead of kings and queens cunningly maneuvering their armies against their enemies, there’s only an ox of a man and a bald little boy, neither of whom exhibits a clearly superior intellect.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Sultans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sultans. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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