feudal

Example Sentences

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Ample opportunity exists for anybody to advance in this feudal system, provided that person can impress the right nobility.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026

For most of the 20th century, the prevailing view of Southern plantations was one of feudal estates with accordingly primitive systems for the extraction of labor and thereby profit from bonded toil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

Every spring, Ellison throws a cherry blossom festival party for his friends at his Japanese-style feudal estate in Woodside, Calif.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

The director describes the island's feudal way of life as deceptively safe but ultimately regressive – something Spike comes to realise.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2025

Pedro Tercero remembered him as an angry giant with a snakeskin whip and a silver cane, at whose step the tenants trembled and whose thunderous voice and feudal arrogance made all of nature quake.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende