kinglike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Suharto's kinglike grip on power mesmerizes all his subjects, and so far no one has dared to openly challenge him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hamilton, for example, declared that the new nation should have a kinglike executive to govern as long as he was on "good behavior."
From Time Magazine Archive
Standing before the biggest and the oldest and the most kinglike of them all, I suddenly had an idea.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
But kinglike and imperative through the quietness of Casa Grande I hear the call of my beloved little tenor robusto—and if it is the voice of hunger it is also the voice of hope!
From The Prairie Wife by Harvey Dunn
O man, be glad! be grandly glad, And kinglike walk thy ways of death!
From Songs of the Mexican Seas by Joaquin Miller
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