king
Example Sentences
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The future king was a teenager at school when his uncle first met Jeffrey Epstein.
From BBC
In the booths over breakfast, Wasserman absorbed advice from a man who would be called the last king of Hollywood.
At his peak he was widely considered boxing's pound-for-pound king, dominating the welterweight division for more than a decade.
From Barron's
After an overconfident miller fibs that his daughter can spin straw into gold, a greedy king locks the poor girl in a room full of straw.
“What now follows is the full, fair and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities,” the king said in a statement issued by Buckingham Palace.
From Salon
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