Example Sentences

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First, he has modified the law of sultanic succession by giving women the right to rule.

From The New Yorker • May 24, 2019

In Tarçın Gezegeni, synths and drums take us back to that decade, with the sultanic melody of a toy melodica creating a weirdly elegant and hard-drinking piece of work.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2012

Drawing on the specialties of an aircraft company and a rug-weaving firm, he will produce a flying carpet that will bombard the world with sultanic adjectives describing Aladdin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inside the palace he found a sultanic shambles.

From Time Magazine Archive

My lord, I am amazed at the indiscretion of a demigod," said Babbalanja, as we passed on our way; "I recognized your sultanic style the very first sentence.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman