Sample Sentences for
regal
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    She was dressed in bright red from the top of her elaborate turban to the tips of her polished fingernails, and an air of regal self-assurance seemed to travel with her.  (source)
    regal = so fine, magnificent, or dignified as to be suitable for royalty
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    Grace Windsor Wexler, her chin tilted in the regal pose of an heiress, gave him her full attention.†  (source)
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    Perhaps, with that strong regal nose and high forehead.†  (source)
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    She missed her way of walking into a room, graceful and regal.†  (source)
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    When Leslie spoke, the words rolling out so regally, you knew she was a proper queen.†  (source)
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    There was the love I had for the mute regality of tall, moss-clad oaks.†  (source)
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    Another blush followed this unregal outburst, and he covered his indecorum as well as he could by adding— "It enrageth me that a man should be hanged upon such idle, hare-brained evidence!"†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unregal means not and reverses the meaning of regal. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Again, I found myself studying it: the varied faces, some smiling, some not, the gentle regalness of the elderly women, who were staring right into the camera.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "Regal," Magister Illyrio said, stepping through an archway.†  (source)
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    She walked regally behind the stretcher to the ambulance.†  (source)
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    With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the off-hand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates.†  (source)
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    She looked more regal than the Emperor's own blood.†  (source)
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    Nearby a white heron posed regally on one leg, in the same tree where the boys had hung their shoes before swimming to the derelict boat.†  (source)
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