Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "abdicates"

Lexicographically close words:
abbreviation; abbreviations; abda; abdicate; abdicated; abdicating; abdication; abdomen; abdomens; abdominal
  1. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes.

  2. King Constantine of Greece abdicates in favor of his second son, Alexander.

  3. He abdicates all right to be his own governor.

  4. A nation that abdicates after a reign of two years, and on heaps of ruins, bequeaths the sceptre to anarchy.

  5. It abdicates and empowers the monarchy to foresee, to will, to act for it.

  6. Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, abdicates in favour of his son.

  7. It abdicates in favour of its elite, and consents to obey whoever that elite may confide in.

  8. The Kaiser formally abdicates the crown of Prussia and the German Imperial crown.

  9. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria abdicates in favour of his son Prince Boris.

  10. The Kaiser abdicates and flies to Holland.

  11. The Tsar abdicates for himself and the Tsarevitch, and names his brother, the Grand Duke Michael, as Regent.

  12. Thus, for example, among the Pondos the festival includes a period of license, during the continuance of which the chief abdicates his functions and any crime may be committed with impunity.

  13. The chief issues certain orders for the conduct of the proceedings, tastes the fruits which are served in the gourd-dish with which he has been presented, and then abdicates all his functions while the festival lasts.

  14. M150 In some places the father either abdicates when his son attains to manhood or is forcibly deposed by him.


    15. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abdicates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.