Sentence examples for reign upon from inspiring English sources

The phrase "reign upon" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something dominating or controlling a situation or group of people, often in a negative or oppressive manner. Example: "The dictator's ruthless regime reigned upon the people for decades, causing widespread fear and suffering."

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This gentleman "had it from high authority to bring about the great public-office millennium, when Commissioners should reign upon earth".

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For you hooked up with Mother Nature and the fallout of that toxic relationship reigned upon the innocents.

Hellfire and damnation will reign down upon you.

Literally, let them all reign down upon Selena Gomez's new music video for "Bad Liar," in which she plays not one, but four separate characters.

Æthelstan's reign built upon his grandfather's ecclesiastical programme, consolidating the local ecclesiastical revival and laying the foundation for the monastic reform movement later in the century.

Negotiations with Portugal for Charles's marriage to Catherine of Braganza began during his father's reign and upon the restoration, Queen Luísa of Portugal, acting as regent, reopened negotiations with England that resulted in an alliance.

For some years he ran a website and forum called Survive 2012 which focused on a spectrum of physical disasters that could reign down upon the Earth and the kind of actions people could take to not only prepare, but survive.

Another redoubtable landlady, Miss Abbey Potterson of the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters in Limehouse (giving upon the river), reigns "supreme upon her throne, the Bar", and is more than a match for the villainous Rogue Riderhood.

The Richmond Examiner called it "the inauguration of a reign of hell upon earth!" Within days, the news made its way to slaves in the South.

My experience is not terribly unusual; people of all descriptions often take drastic measures to cope with fellow tenants who impose a musical reign of terror upon their neighbors.

His thugs are visiting a reign of terror upon Kosovo province, where ethnic Albanians make up 90% of the population.

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