Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use regal in a sentence

24 example sentences · adjective, noun

Regal means of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty. Example: “The Queen signed her letter with the regal signet.”

Examples of regal by meaning

adjectiveOf, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.

  • the regal title

adjectiveBefitting a monarch.

  • Regal attacking play.2018 July 14, Gary Lineker, Twitter, retrieved 15 Jul 2018
  • Kwarteng said he had urged Truss to “slow down” over reforms, but a cabinet minister told the FT that she felt “invincible, almost regal”.2022 December 10, Harry Taylor, “Liz Truss and I ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget, admits Kwasi Kwarteng”, in The Guardian

More sentences with regal

  • The Queen signed her letter with the regal signet.From the entry sign
  • Regal sea goddesses have navy blue bodies inscribed with yellow lines and often polka dots.2022 April 12, Jack Israel, “Short but Beautiful Lives”, in world.dan.org. From the entry regal sea goddess
  • I suspect Queen Marie would not have found my school catering very regal.2018, Niki Segnit, Lateral Cooking: Foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi, Bloomsbury, →ISBN. From the entry kromesky
  • He adjusted to domesticated life remarkably well, retaining his regal feral “cattitude.”2014, Kathleen M. Downey, Legendary Locals of Newburyport, Legendary Locals, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry cattitude
  • Alas, geriatrics and convalescent homes, however regal, don't rake it in like moneyed metrosexuals.2006, The Guardian, 12 Aug 06. From the entry rake it in
  • Estella’s regal, or reginal, bearing certainly does nothing to dispel the notion.1988, Matthew Sturgis, The English Cat at Home, Topsfield, Mass.: Salem House Publishers, published 1989, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry reginal
  • She is moving with a regal gait, grasping the arthame, or magic knife.1931, Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry, chapter 7, in JC Locke, transl., Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy. From the entry athame
  • While Phelps might have been the headliner, Ledecky became the little black dress of American swimming; unpretentious, regal and ridiculously versatile.2014 August 10, Karen Crouse, “After Tuneup for Trials, American Swimmers Evaluate Potential”, in The New York Times. From the entry little black dress
  • An "Elizabeth" was regal, cool, an eyecatching beauty.1993, Phillip Margolin, Gone But Not Forgotten, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry Elizabeth
  • From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo.1970, Wilfrido D. Nolledo, chapter 19, in But for the Lovers, Dalkey Archive Press, page 165. From the entry empty
  • Looking very regal indeed is this view of Baked Alaska being temptingly dished up for serving during the holidays.1957, Ice Cream Review, volume 40, Minneapolis, Minn.: Miller Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 33. From the entry baked Alaska
  • The trumpets called again, and in strode his majesty, in regal purple, be-crowned and be-sceptred, and sat himself upon the throne.1925 February 24, “Opening Night of Gyro Mardi Gras Success: Prizes Awarded for Fancy Costumes — Mrs. F. Thomas is Queen”, in Free Press…. From the entry be-sceptred
  • Stormcloud hopped onto the gigantic bed and clawed the mattress into maximum squooshiness as if she'd always lived in that regal room.2017, Julie Berry, The Emperor's Ostrich. From the entry squooshiness
  • This is a dump, and junior assistants with more time in Rangoon board in a somewhat more regal chummery known as "The Gin Palace."2012, Michael B. Miller, Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History, Cambridge University Press, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 115. From the entry chummery
  • Charming girls dressed in the traditional, low-country reddha and hattaya, welcomed the invitees at the regal Galle Face Hotel, with a customary ayubowan.2007 June 3, Vidushi Seneviratne, “Echo of Koggala cradle”, in The Sunday Times. From the entry ayubowan
  • As a coronavirologist, I am tempted to translate the eponymic prefix as ‘crown’ and confer the regal attribute to my favourite viruses.2004 April 1, Marian C Horzinek, “The bright future of coronavirology”, in Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery. From the entry coronavirologist
  • The air inside smelled antediluvian, regal somehow, with traces of pipe tobacco, tea leaves, cooking sherry, and the earthen aroma of stone architecture.2003, Dan Brown, chapter 54, in The Da Vinci Code, [London]: BCA, published 2005, page 226. From the entry antediluvian
  • Bunty sat bloomingly regal in the same old red-silk dress with a pearl collar and tiara, day after day, playing on the red-lacquered grand piano.1953, Richard Llewellyn, A Flame for Doubting Thomas, page 61. From the entry bloomingly
  • Young-White’s paeans to short kings encourage us to confront society’s overvaluation of men’s height, and recognize the guys under 6ft whose positive attitudes render them nothing short of regal.2019 June 21, Adrienne Matei, “In praise of short men: will the rise of ‘short kings’ spell the fall of toxic masculinity?”, in The…. From the entry conventional
  • We stood before the Lord in the high-backed chair, and I saw that the wood figures of his regal throne were, of course, animalian, feline and diabolical.1999, Anne Rice, Vittorio the Vampire, Ballantine, published 2001, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry animalian
  • There's a world of difference between the name Edward, which sounds rather regal and stuffy (Edwardian) and the name Eddie, which sounds like a guy on the bus.1994, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry Edward

Meaning of regal

  1. adjective Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
  2. adjective Befitting a monarch.
  3. adjective Befitting a king or emperor.

Full definition of regal

Questions about regal in a sentence

How do you use regal in a sentence?
Regal is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The Queen signed her letter with the regal signet.”
What is a short sentence with regal?
“Regal attacking play.”
What does regal mean?
Regal means of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: regal (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.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use regal in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/regal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.