Sentence examples for they were royalty from inspiring English sources
They emanated the sense that they were royalty, even as they displayed a frontier ethic.
The audience, mostly seated on the floor, gazed up at them as if they were royalty or gods or ringed planets.
Whenever an elderly patron arrives, or one who is disabled and in a wheelchair, Tarcisio escorts them into the dining room as if they were royalty.
Times have changed since junior dancers were obliged to defer to senior stars as though they were royalty: in some companies, management is even breaking with the habit of calling dancers boys and girls.
Yet, the next day, he and two friends had enough spirit to celebrate their freedom by converting a large red cloth they had scavenged into a red carpet and a feathered hat into a crown and puckishly pretending they were royalty on parade on the streets of their tormentors.
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They want to pretend they're royalty.
"They're royalty but they're real people," she said.
Portraits of ordinary everyday black women are spotlighted, poised as though they are royalty.
"Our members - many of them low paid - many of them still working in impossible conditions, conference, they are royalty too.
