Sample Sentences forprerogative (auto-selected)
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She was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn. (source)prerogative = right or privilege
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Such is the prerogative of any parent, and the duty of one who is raising a tender heart.† (source)
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It's a father's prerogative to tell a daughter, if he chooses.† (source)
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As the guy who held the patent on laurel wreaths, that was my prerogative.† (source)
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It was his prerogative to raise objections.† (source)
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We women feel the matter of debutantes should be our prerogative.† (source)
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"Well, it ain't a local prerogative," Augustus said.† (source)
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The emperor protects his prerogatives by protecting his own.† (source)
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She's rubbing our noses in it, letting us know exactly who she is, making us watch her as she silently reads, flaunting her prerogative.† (source)
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VLADIMIR: Your Worship wishes to assert his prerogatives?† (source)
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We Reds insult the king and the nobles if we can get away with it, but I think that's our prerogative.† (source)
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It is almost impossible for a man who enjoys freedom with all its prerogatives, to realize what it means to be deprived of that freedom.† (source)
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And if she wanted to hide in the kitchen every time Eleanor came over, Park thought, that was her prerogative.† (source)
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It's difficult to appreciate today how unusual this approach was, for physicians closely guarded their prerogatives, and it was heresy to entrust mere midwives with medical responsibilities.† (source)
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It wasn't a way of talking that I was used to—possibly I had never talked that way before— but I knew I could get used to it in a heartbeat, that here I had stumbled on a prerogative of parenthood I hadn't thought of before (I'd thought only how I would be tender and affectionate and patient and instructive).† (source)
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The prospect of forced retirement from "the most exclusive club in the world," the possibilities of giving up the interesting work, the fascinating trappings and the impressive prerogatives of Congressional office, can cause even the most courageous politician serious loss of sleep.† (source)
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