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How to use kings in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Kings means a pair of kings (playing cards). Example: “The vassals were subject to their lords, who in turn were subject to barons or kings.”

More sentences with kings

  • The vassals were subject to their lords, who in turn were subject to barons or kings.From the entry in turn
  • The strongest possible full house is aces full of kings (three aces and two kings).From the entry full of
  • Jacks, queens, and kings are not numerals.From the entry numeral
  • I'll beat him with my kings full!From the entry full
  • He came out with a pair of kings.From the entry come out
  • When Henry played poker, he liked to declare suicide kings wild, as he felt it lent him an air of sophistication.From the entry suicide king
  • Several kings of the Belgians were called Leopold.From the entry Leopold
  • Oi mate, have you got kings?From the entry king
  • The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.From the entry Micah
  • Mebbe that's because polismen's th' nearest things to kings they cud find.2020, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, page 97. From the entry polisman
  • Too many fabulous queens and kings in one place really drains my social batteries.2018 June 20, Pierre-Antoine Louis, quoting Colton Smith, “Readers on Pride Month and L.G.B.T. Rights: 'An Ongoing Battle'.”, in The New…. From the entry social battery
  • In this period, only sons of kings who had actually reigned bore the title ætheling, signifying throneworthiness.2016, Ann Lyon, Constitutional History of the UK. From the entry throneworthiness
  • The same goes for people who can recite their kings and queens.2015 January 4, Harry Mount, “Kings and queens – any other approach to history is boring [print version: Game of thrones, 3 January 2015…. From the entry enfilade
  • Meanwhile, as many as eight "grooms of the stool" waited on kings when at privy.2014, Leonard Sweet, “Setting the Table at Home”, in From Tablet to Table: Where Community is Found and Identity is Formed, Colorado…. From the entry groom of the stool
  • Not just 'saman' kings: Kind parking warden helps old woman alight from taxi.2013 November 9, Mark, “Not just ‘saman’ kings: Kind parking warden helps old woman alight from taxi”, in stomp.sg, archived from the…. From the entry saman
  • In Anglo-Saxon mythology, kings were descended from Wotan, or Odin, the high god of the Teutonic pantheon.2012, Ian Bradley, God Save the Queen: The Spiritual Heart of the Monarchy, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry Wotan
  • "I'm gonna refinish them, baby, sell 'em at a yuge profit, and we'll be livin' like kings."2012, Lucy March, A Little Night Magic: A Novel. From the entry yuge
  • The three twos look puny against light-fingered Tucker's kings, but Johnny's still in the pot.2011, Warren Bull, Murder Manhattan Style, Untreed Reads, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry Huey, Dewey and Louie
  • For basic duties, the ephors convened both the Spartan boulê of kings and elders and the assemblies.2009, Stephanie Lynn Budin, The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction, page 197. From the entry ephor
  • Kircher, following Grueber, states that there were two kings of Tibet.2008, Alexander Norman, Holder of the White Lotus: The Lives of the Dalai Lama, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 246. From the entry Great Lama
  • Even so, the rule of the Frankish kings was not all catastrophe.2006, Andrew Hussey, “Sea Gods”, in Paris: The Secret History, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA, published 2007, →ISBN, part one (The Old…. From the entry heirling
  • Three kings ago, my longfather taught the Everran lords that a king is not a corsair's figurehead.2005, Sylvia Kelso, Everran's Bane, page 20. From the entry longfather
  • Until now, telling the tyrant-lizard kings from their queens has been pure guesswork.2005, New Scientist, page 9. From the entry Tyrannosaurus regina
  • Wearing the cloth of kings would seem to be an appropriate symbol.2004, Alison Dundes Renteln, The Cultural Defense, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry cloth
  • From ruthless gangsters to restless mail order kings, from the Fort Dearborn Massacre to the St.2004, Ted Okuda, Jack Mulqueen, The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television. From the entry ghostlore
  • This is how Sauron ensnares the kings of men and dwarves with the elf-crafted rings of power.2003, Anne C. Petty, Tolkien in the Land of Heroes: Discovering the Human Spirit, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry Faustian bargain
  • Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.2002, Scott W. Donkin, Gerard Meyer, Peak Performance: Body and Mind, page 119. From the entry king
  • If this were so, perhaps he really had talked with Christ and the kings of bygone days.1999, Thomas Slemen, Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People. From the entry timelord
  • D'Aubigne had to admit that "our kings have learnt to Machiavellize."1999, The American Scholar - Volume 68, page 85. From the entry machiavellize
  • Its narratives frankly puzzled him—the parade of bearded kings and prophets, their curious ravings.1993, Carol Shields, chapter 3, in The Stone Diaries, page 85. From the entry parade
  • They are associated with public proscriptions, and their propitiation is controlled by chiefs, kings, and priests.1992, John M. Janzen, “Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western Equatorial African Therapeutics”, in Steven Feierman, John M.…. From the entry tutelary
  • Here Remy notes that four kings received ornamenta, the three here mentioned and Sohaemus of Emesene.1990, Seth Schwartz, Josephus and Judaean Politics, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry Emesene
  • Out of ancient Nordic legends come ice palaces, fierce mountain kings and lovely snow queens.1988 December 24, James T. Yenckel, “Let It Snow! Celebrating the Cold at North America’s Winter Festivals”, in The Washington Post…. From the entry Vulcanus
  • He was a weakling, a lewdster: with him the line of kings started from IkshWaku became extinct.1981, Sakhyānandasvāmikaḷ, Glimpses of Our Glorious Past. From the entry lewdster
  • As for great men and kings being History's slaves, I think Tolstoi was off the track.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry off the track
  • Crusaders were kings, lords, wretches, children, women, weaponsmen, churchmen, hermits, harlots, adventurers.1974, Lauran Paine, Saladin; a man for all ages, page 13. From the entry weaponsman
  • Alexander bore very little resemblance to the huge, not very agile kings of the wrestling mat.1972, Soviet Life, numbers 184-195, page 63. From the entry matman
  • The prince had the two old canals of the Wu kings widened, deepened, and lined with rock.[1967, Lyn Harrington, “Sui—"The Son of a Talented Father Shows Talent"”, in The Grand Canal of China, Rand McNally & Company, →LCCN…. From the entry Qiantang
  • Adder stones strengthened their owners in legal disputes and helped them get access to kings.1963, Archie Carr, The Reptiles, New York, N.Y.: Time-Life Books, →OCLC, page 149. From the entry adder stone
  • It was many years since the kings of England had bothered over abbatical elections.1962, Prudence Andrew, A Question of Choice, page 34. From the entry abbatical

Meaning of kings

  1. noun A pair of kings (playing cards).
  2. noun A drinking game that uses playing cards.

Full definition of kings

Questions about kings in a sentence

How do you use kings in a sentence?
Kings is used as a noun. For example: “The vassals were subject to their lords, who in turn were subject to barons or kings.”
What is a short sentence with kings?
“Oi mate, have you got kings?”
What does kings mean?
Kings means a pair of kings (playing cards).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kings (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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