How to Use viceroy in a Sentence

viceroy

noun
  • The world is sliding in a strange direction when a Prince wishes to become a viceroy.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Regents or viceroys hearken back to royalty and empires, and that’s not the look Trump is going for here—at least for now.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Despite the viceroy’s instructions, the band of friars had zero interest in bartering.
    — Bruce Berger, WSJ, 12 July 2019
  • For example, the scarlet king snake mimics the venomous coral snake, while the viceroy butterfly mimics the monarch butterfly, which is poisonous.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
  • He was arrested in May, after informing the viceroy of his intention to raid the Dharasana Salt Works.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Is Lakshmi under the impression that the Weingartens of the Bronx were descendants of a British viceroy?
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Mexico’s love for bread dates back to the mid-1500s, when a viceroy dipped bread into hot chocolate in front of a crowd of people, reports the food website Eater.
    — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
  • On November 30, 1680, a procession of new viceroys made their triumphant entry into Mexico City.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • In these special hideaways, guests can live like royals (if only for a night or two) and explore secret passageways, relax in private gardens, or stare out at vistas once reserved for the pope, the viceroy of Egypt, or Louis XV.
    — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 30 June 2017
  • Gandhi’s country, India, entered the European conflict in 1939 not out of any popular desire to quash Nazism but because its British viceroy had declared war on its behalf.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The butterfly—as well as another species, the viceroy—acquire the scent from feeding on wintergreen flowers, says Katy Prudic, an entomologist at the University of Arizona.
    — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2016
  • His term was to last for three years, and in 1506 Afonso de Albuquerque was ordered by the king of Portugal to succeed Almeida as the governor and viceroy in 1508, when Almeida’s term was set to end.
    — Sanat Pai Raikarall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Apr. 2026

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