How to Use royalist in a Sentence

royalist

noun
  • Harry would also like the royalist side to be a little smarter.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Royalists say the law is necessary to protect the crown.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The alliance could be an uneasy one given Anutin’s strong royalist leanings.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • As protesters gathered, they were met by lines of royalist groups who had turned out dressed in yellow -- the color of the monarchy.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Critics weren’t particularly kind, but die-hards (and royalists) liked it well enough.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • In France, no politician outside the circle of fringe far-right royalists is supposed to talk about missing the king.
    — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • French protesters filled the streets and clashed with royalist soldiers, burning down customs posts and looting the city for food and weapons.
    — Ryan Prior and Erin Davis, CNN, 13 July 2019
  • The fado song at the end of the film, which is sung by Paulo Bragança, has clear royalist undertones.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 30 May 2022
  • What is juicier than an illicit relationship with a priest who is also a royalist spy?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • No doubt there will be a long tail for The Crown as some viewers finally catch up and some die-hard royalists rewatch.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 29 May 2024
  • There’s a lot of royalist television out there, and much of it is either pretty mid or revels in bodice-ripping trashiness.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Scotland is far less royalist than England, with some polls putting support for the monarchy as low as 45%.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • This time, the King’s favor had turned against them, and the army and royalist militias were authorized to put down the unrest with lethal force.
    — Feliz Solomon / Bangkok, Time, 29 June 2017
  • My grandmother and grandfather were huge royalists.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • After the outbreak of civil war, the royalists set up a temporary seat of government in Oxford.
    — Richard Davenport-Hines, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The three former premiers who’ve expressed interest in the committee have long had connections with the royalist camp.
    — Randy Thanthong-Knight, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • During this time, royalists like Cavendish were forced to flee to the continent, as their estates were confiscated and their fortunes lost.
    — Anne M. Thell, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Fouché suggested that the royalists had planned the attack, but Napoleon continued to blame the Jacobins.
    — National Geographic, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Piers Morgan, a fierce royalist, ranted on Twitter about the indiscretion of putting a price on a nation’s grief.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In this part of England, for Saturday at least, everyone was a royalist and romantic.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 19 May 2018
  • The royalists needed an early victory and nearly secured it, but the longer the war lasted, the more the advantage lay with the king’s enemies.
    — Allan Massie, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017
  • Royalists fled the country, fearing legal and physical danger.
    — Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In a rare move for the palace, members of the international press had been invited to sit among crowds of royalist supporters waiting to see the King.
    — Jonathan Miller, Kocha Olarn, and Helen Regan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2020
  • In their way is Asav, a bloodthirsty and maniacal mercenary leader who thinks the tusk will unite people behind his royalist bloodline.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The court, like the military, is considered a pillar of the country's royalist establishment, and the ultimate bulwark against threats to it.
    — Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • As Republicans work to consolidate the power of those royalists in the coming months, Democrats should (once again) call for their overthrow.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The Bhumjaithai party leader is staunch royalist who is firmly against any amendments to lese majeste, Thailand’s strict royal defamation law.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • This version of Spanish history might have appealed to the royalists, Falangists, and fervent Catholics who were winning the civil war.
    — Robert Irwin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Several leading politicians in the NUP cut their teeth on royalist struggles for land and federalism.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Two years later, a group of Hawaiian royalists held an armed revolt to restore the monarchy, and the provisional government blamed her for the violence.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 18 May 2026

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