Sample Sentences for
reign
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reign as in:  She reigned over England

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    During his reign, Augustus shrank the size of the senate from 900 to 600 members.
    reign = time during which he ruled
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    But when the reign of Tiberius ended, his poems were forgotten.  (source)
    reign = time of rule
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    ...in the third year of His Majesty's reign,  (source)
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    You truly learned nothing from your previous reign.  (source)
    reign = time of rule
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    How long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns!  (source)
    reigns = the time during which a king or queen ruled
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    But soon the atmosphere of leaden apathy reigning over the compound began to affect them too.†  (source)
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    Truly, said Balin, I am right heavy that my Lord Arthur is displeased with me, for he is the most worshipful knight that reigneth now on earth, and his love will I get or else will I put my life in adventure.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She reigneth" in older English, today we say "She reigns."
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    One would take it, That never saw 'em pace before, the spavin Or springhalt reign'd among 'em.†  (source)
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    Thou didst reign, Thou reignest, and Thou wilt reign.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou reignest" in older English, today we say "You reign."
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    She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the ... which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there  (source)
    reigned = ruled (held royal office and were in charge)
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    These two Kings and two Queens governed Narnia well, and long and happy was their reign.  (source)
    reign = the time during which they ruled
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    He came unto the timeless halls where shining fall the countless years, and endless reigns theElder King in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer; and words unheard were spoken then of folk of Men and Elven-kin, beyond the world were visions showed forbid to those that dwell therein.†  (source)
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    No offense, but you used to be the reigning prince of fools.†  (source)
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reign as in:  uncertainty reigns

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Uncertainty and fear reigned during those years.
reigned = were most powerful
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    Fame reigns in Hollywood.
    reigns = is most important or powerful
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    Over the next twelve hours, chaos continued to reign on Frobozz as every gunter in the OASIS scrambled to reach the planet and join the fray.  (source)
    reign = prevail (be most powerful or noticeable)
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    She was born in Virginia in the 1880s, after federal troops had been withdrawn and a reign of violence and terror had begun, designed to deny any political or social rights for African Americans.  (source)
    reign = period with dominance
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    A vast silence reigned over the land.  (source)
    reigned = was most powerful or noticeable
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    Or virtually any novel of the naturalistic movement of the late nineteenth century, where the law of the jungle and survival of the fittest reign.  (source)
    reign = dominate (are most influential)
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    ...it is winter in Narnia ... Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns...  (source)
    reigns = is important or noticeable
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    "Home of the Joplin High Eagles—reigning state champions in girls' basketball," CyFi says.  (source)
    reigning = time of their championship
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    One floor down, pandemonium reigned.  (source)
    reigned = prevailed (was most powerful or noticeable)
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    Suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth; So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.  (source)
    reign = was most powerful
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    Stillness reigns, the torches blink dully, the time drags heavily.  (source)
    reigns = is most noticeable (predominate)
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    The reigning theory, first disseminated by a prominent doctor in the Huffington Post, was that the new strain of fungal spores had inadvertently developed within factory conditions of manufacturing areas, the SEZs in China, where spores fed off the highly specific mixture of chemicals.  (source)
    reigning = currently most popular or dominant
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    In 1935, when Cunningham's record of 4:06.7 reigned, science weighed in.  (source)
    reigned = was recognized as the best
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    ...there golden sleep doth reign:  (source)
    reign = is most powerful
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