Sentence examples for had been reigning from inspiring English sources

Hopes Dashed and Restored For Mr. Bush, his advisers and his friends, confidence had been reigning for days.

Moss, whose pale mien and angular skinny frame broke with the super-charged, Glamazon glow of the supermodel pack that had been reigning the runways, was also labeled with a darker sticker − 'heroin chic'.

The present incumbent on the throne, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, has been reigning since 1941, when his father, Shah Reza Khan Pahlevi abdicated.

This is the low-fat diet that has been reigning "wisdom" for the last 30 years or more.

But when you've been reigning for a while, it can come to seem despotic, ungenerous, false.

The Czechs may have been reigning European champions, and had that two-goal win in Prague to remember, but they were at something of a disadvantage when their Hampden visit came around.

The biggest part of the Warriors' success has been reigning MVP Steph Curry, who is playing like the man many think could end up being the best shooter in NBA history.

He claims that he is a destiny because he regards his anti-moral truths as having the annihilating power of intellectual dynamite; he expects them to topple the morality born of sickness which he perceives to have been reigning within Western culture for the last two thousand years.

His ballerina as Odette/Odile was Noella Pontois, a guest star with the Paris Opera Ballet, where she had been the reigning ballerina in the 1970's.

In fact, before Google DeepMind, North Korea had been the reigning AI champion of international computerized competitions for the ancient Chinese game of Go.

I think I'm naturally a fairly flamboyant lyricist and maybe I've just been reigning it back too much.