reign
IPA: rˈeɪn
noun
- The exercise of sovereign power.
- The period during which a monarch rules.
- The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
- A male given name
verb
- (intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
- (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To reign over (a country)
- To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
- To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
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Examples of "reign" in Sentences
- During his title reign, he took out Joe Stevenson,
- If Lyoto Machida performs like he did Saturday, his title reign could be a long one.
- Instead, he assumed his title reign was nothing but a test to see if he had what it took.
- After her title reign came to a close, Madusa would continue to feud with Oklahoma for a few more weeks.
- The challenges for Pavlik since September 2007, or the beginning of his title reign, have come without the Middleweight honors on the line.
- Even his title reign comes from the fact that the person he was feuding with at the time the aforementioned John Cena feud was legit injured and the title had to be moved.
- With so much going on stealing attention away from Undertaker, does his title reign have any chance to be looked at as anything but a transitional reign waiting to be ended by one of the previously mentioned names?
- And after she had taken from her breast the drop of water and put it in the vial, she spoke to me these words: 'This is the unction with which the kings of England shall be anointed; _not those who reign now, but those who are to reign_; for those who reign now are wicked, and so will be their successors, and, for their iniquity shall lose many things.
- And Nigel did take time off after the concussion and also the bicep tear, but he still worked through a lot of other injuries and, at the end of his title reign, was working through two bicep tears, and even though we don't know for sure why WWE pulled back on their contract offer to him, I would be very surprised if the injuries didn't have something to do with it.
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