potentate

How To Use potentate In A Sentence

• The man in gold, armed to the teeth, is what is called a cavass, and these swells behind are the representatives, male or female, of some foreign potentate, taking a walk. Sketches From My Life
• Their faces were as immobile as those of potentates receiving tribute from conquered tribes.
• As they looked around the café and almost immediately caught his eye, Alberg felt like some kind of potentate. SLEEP WHILE I SING
• And their power-crazed heads obviously long to wear a crown, which is why they behave like old-style nawabs and potentates.
• For a few seconds the local potentate demurred; but when the Chief Justice poured upon him a cataract of blasphemy, and vowed to hang him instantly over the entrance to the tolsey unless he complied immediately, the humiliated chief magistrate of the ancient borough took his place at the felon's bar, and received such a rating as no thief, murderer or rebel had ever heard from George Jeffrey's abusive mouth. A Book About Lawyers
• Pensioned by the British Government, which permitted him to continue this absurd travesty, if his feeble exasperation over his predicament and his silly ostentations could be called by that name, this realmless potentate occupied his waking hours in futile revilings of the hand that at once smote and sustained him. The Flaw in the Sapphire
• The power of a star on the set is tantamount to that of a potentate.
• Hearst's world is populated by nervous, brittle sophisticates who jump joylessly around when the potentate's mistress orders them to Charleston: cats on a very hot tin roof.
• Renaissance potentates kept dwarfs, whom they dressed up, slobbered over, passed around at the dinner table, or presented as gifts to influential friends.
• As far as he was concerned she was a visiting potentate; he was afraid of making a mistake. GALILEE