6 sentences with 'rightful'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rightful and other words derived from it.
• « Its people believed that their empire and their emperor were preserved by God himself as the rightful seat of the Christian religion. »
• « Charlemagne distinguished himself not only by the extent of the territories he conquered, but by his insistence on ruling those territories as the new and rightful king. »
• « Among his other titles he claimed to be the rightful shah (king) and a latter-day Alexander the Great (known as Iskandar in Persian). »
• « In the years that followed, the French Wars of Religion became a three-way civil war pitting the Catholic League against the rightful king of France (both sides were Catholic, but were as focused on destroying each other as they were on fighting the Huguenots) with the Huguenots fighting both in turn. »
• « The emergence of high-powered graphics tools in the mid-1990s finally gave the computer its rightful place in the field of image creation. »
• « Many loyalists were royal officials and merchants with extensive commercial ties to Britain, who saw themselves as the rightful and just defenders of the British constitution. »