Sentence examples for dynasty from inspiring English sources

'dynasty' is a legitimate word in English writing
You can use it to refer to a family that holds power for several generations, for example: The House of Habsburg was a powerful European dynasty for centuries.

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dynasty

noun

A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.

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Members of a well-known London football dynasty that also numbers Les, Dennis, Bradley and Clive among its members, the pair will conduct the draw at approximately 2pm, with five different third-round matches either ongoing or still to begin.

At Portavadie, a remote promontory at the mouth of Loch Fyne, a £45m glass-fronted marina and leisure development is being built by the Bulloch family, a Scottish whisky dynasty.

It was widely perceived as a further move to establish Elisabeth as a significant Murdoch dynasty figure independent from her father and siblings in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.

Bahrain stands out as the first example of an Arab country where popular protests were crushed – with the assistance of neighbouring Saudi Arabia and the acquiescence of the US and Britain, whose military, strategic and business interests wed them to a status quo in which the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty rules over a disenfranchised Shia majority.

Related: Gina Rinehart aide slams Nine's 'tacky' dramatisation of Hancock dynasty Justice Peter Garling said that based on promotional material and interviews about the second episode there was a real prospect the show would air statements that are not entirely accurate and perhaps even made up.

Whichever Goliath from the Paisley dynasty chose to stand in North Antrim at next year's general election, Allister said he would be there firing off his verbal slingshots in an effort to fell the giant.

Dating back to the Liao dynasty (916-1125), the site has been a grotesquely expanded – huge new courtyards of conspicuously lacquered wood bury the smaller, faded original halls.

It continued to thrive in the Liao and Jin dynasties, and later regained prominence as a major strategic centre in the Ming dynasty (1368 1644).

But with its epic revival, Datong would regain its Ming dynasty splendour, building on the geometric layout that had survived from then.

Probably the most feminised of the new quirky stars is Stephen Mangan or Noel Fielding, but they are acres away from classic femininity (again, you can contrast us with America, here – they love their button-cute girl-boys, from Justin Bieber to Justin Timberlake, a dynasty of Effeminate Child Stars called Justin, as far back as the internet stretches).

He cites ancient ­China's premier historian, Sima Qian, who recorded a remarkable building programme pursued by China's first ruling dynasty, the Qin: "Whenever Qin conquered one of its rivals, it would commission replicas of its ­palaces and halls and reconstruct them on the slope north of the capital.

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