How to Use reign in a Sentence

reign

1 of 2 noun

• She was a popular ruler throughout her reign.
• Lengthy reigns at the top may be the next thing to get disrupted.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• The truth of the matter is that the nicki Minaj reign is up.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 July 2018
• But of all the oversized pastas, there are some that reign supreme.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 5 June 2018
• Many kids get free reign of the basement for sleepovers.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 20 July 2018
• The narrative at the time was that in a moment like this, chaos reigns.
  — Alvin Melathe, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2020
• Camilla may have worn the brooch to symbolize the queen's long reign.
  — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022
• Pound for pound, the blue whale’s reign is indisputable.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2019
• That was just the first few months of Villanueva’s reign.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Now, in the show’s final season, Claire holds the reigns.
  — Lonnie Firestone, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2018
• Big bodies kind of reign supreme during that run for those teams.
  — oregonlive.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• His reign was cut prematurely short by a bull that had the gall to fight back.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2021
• The reign was winding down and there was still an awful lot going on.
  — Time, 9 Nov. 2022
• The Na'vi reign at the domestic box office has come to an end.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2022
• Still, Pass Over’s reign hardly feels like a luck of the draw.
  — Brittani Samuel, Glamour, 23 Sep. 2021
• So will they be forced to join her and who will be joining Sam in her new reign?
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 1 Nov. 2019
• The Na'vis' reign at the box office continues for a fifth week in a row.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2023
• The fish tube's reign began last week, but also five years ago.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2019
• Then there were the companies whose reign at the top lasted only a few days.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• The Spartans’ reign at the top — at least to start the season — will be short-lived.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2019
• To that end, here are six in which buoyancy and humor reign.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• To help with the costs of her reign, Cotton needed to find sponsors.
  — Molly Hudson, azcentral, 4 July 2019
• In this set, notes like vanilla, chocolate, and caramel reign supreme.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 25 May 2023
• Blue has free reign around the property and often greets guests with a nuzzle or lick.
  — Matt Villano, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
• But despite the zoo’s best efforts to keep it healthy, the historic oak’s reign has come to an end.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
• Also, the brothers kind of gave me free reign to kind of just freak the hell out, so that was pretty fun.
  — Laura Bradley, vanityfair.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• How ten Hag handles that will define the early months of his reign.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• Only the current champion can take it home for his reign.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• The latest episode in Pompeo's reign of error came this week.
  — Star Tribune, 17 Jan. 2021
• Nothing starts off a good reign quite like nearly massacring all of your subjects.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019

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reign

2 of 2 verb

• The lion reigns as king of the jungle.
• The king reigned in a time of peace and prosperity.
• That being said, the camp theme will always reign supreme for me!
  — Christopher Ros, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2021
• And, across the board, fraught period pieces reign supreme.
  — NBC News, 3 Nov. 2021
• The reigning rookie of the year won Houston in his first try.
  — Jason McDaniel, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
• Will the South girls continue to reign supreme at state?
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Three of the last four reigning champs have crashed out in the first round — home before the postcards.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 June 2018
• Robinson wanted to do more, but the coaching staff had to reign him in.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
• The one thing that might reign the Taliban in is that the group needs young Afghans.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2021
• Britain continues to reign supreme in the world of bespoke suiting.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
• Bhumibol was the world’s longest-reigning monarch at the time of his death.
  — Sunil Jagtiani, Bloomberg.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The new king could have chosen to reign under a different name.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2022
• After four decades in the business, Ian Schrager still reigns as the king of cool.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2019
• Will rats reign supreme for the next round on national TV?
  — Samantha Incorvaia, azcentral, 26 July 2019
• And which reality show will reign supreme over the others?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 8 June 2022
• The reigning state champs had a rough day at the ball park Thursday in Fairbanks.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2018
• How much does a game like this perhaps shake things up for you guys as the reigning champions?
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 16 May 2018
• But where gaming laptops still reign supreme are in the finer details.
  — Andrew Myrick, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Teach me to turn to You in prayer, trust You to be in charge and let Your peace reign over me.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
• Monster Mash' once reigned supreme on the Billboard charts.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2019
• This was the year a proud single mother beat out a reigning champion.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Soon it was picked up by colleges, in an attempt to reign in large outbreaks, then cities and states.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
• But which of these framerate-boosting techs will reign supreme?
  — Chris Stobing, PCMAG, 24 Mar. 2022
• Morales also agrees that single tone shades will reign supreme this year because the upkeep is so easy.
  — Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 26 Oct. 2020
• Rebekah finding her place in his kingdom, and their attempts to reign supreme over it all.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 12 Mar. 2022
• Some may come as no surprise, but others may shock you so keep scrolling to find out which artist reigned supreme over the past decade!
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• But common sense doesn’t always win in a courtroom, where statutes reign supreme.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
• Classic black and white silhouettes reigned supreme, but there were some bright pops of colour, too.
  — Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 23 July 2019
• For years, accent walls reigned as the statement-making paint treatment of choice.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Yet, that statement didn’t come out of the mouth of a reigning Bachelorette lead.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Apr 2024