Sentence examples for king being from inspiring English sources

The Chanson de Roland belongs to the cycle known as the Geste du Roi ("Deeds of the King"), the king being Charlemagne, Roland's uncle, in whose service he perished with the rear guard at Roncevaux.

At Trick 2 West switched to a low spade, East's king being captured by South's ace.

It lacks striking features, the brightest star, Sadalmelik (Arabic for "the lucky stars of the king"), being of magnitude 3.0.

West took this trick, but South's club loser evaporated on the heart jack, the club king being the dummy entry.

"Visually it's really appealing to me; I love the idea of a king being scared of sitting down.

The king being informed of the cause and manner of his death, admired him more than ever, and continued to show kindness to his friends and relations.

Handlen argued that King was a wrong fit for The X-Files and that the resultant script was King "being asked to marry his voice to Carter's".

You have to remember that this was a time of Martin Luther King being assassinated, Bobby and Jack Kennedy too [though these events actually happened a decade and more before].

Few leaders in the West openly embrace it as a foundational tenet for their leadership style (Martin Luther King being a rare exception that comes to mind).

It's going to take a major figure like Billie Jean King being given real power and about five years or so to re-align the entire sport.

On my television screen was a black man, Rodney King, being beaten unconscious by several police officers.