How to Use feudal in a Sentence

feudal

adjective
Definition of feudalnext
  • The town is governed by some rules that seem to come straight from feudal times.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • This meant having a say in how costumes, wigs and the sets had to be authentic to the world of 1600 feudal Japan.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But the phrase came to mean more than simply a way of escaping feudal bondage.
    — Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
  • And what about those feudal lords of the rapidly declining tech era?
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The feudal calculus lives and breeds, but its habitat is wealth not land.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Even the feudal days of the early 1900s, most people were full-time employees.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Mr Abe comes from Yamaguchi, known in feudal times as Choshu.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Drug bosses known as ‘the Tequila Man’ and ‘the Fish’ rule like feudal lords ... [and] residents get kidnapped in groups.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
  • Landsraad: Despite all the spaceships, the future of Dune is mostly a feudal one.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Judging from the imagery in the trailer above, pre-League Sinnoh region looks a lot like feudal Japan.
    — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2021
  • That chipping noise across the NFL is star quarterbacks tearing down the wall of feudal power.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 May 2021
  • The visit was a step back in time, and Meenakshi and Amrita were taken with Caldas’s stories of war and feudal lords.
    — Shivani Vora, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
  • The game, which will be released on Nov. 15, is set in feudal Japan and features two lead characters: Yasuke and Naoe.
    — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 16 May 2024
  • The feudal houses of Barzani and Talabani—which fought a civil war in the 1990s over UN aid—now tussle over trade routes.
    — The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021
  • From the ancient world through feudal Europe to the American colonies themselves, some people enjoyed the right to bear arms and some did not.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 8 Oct. 2017
  • South Dakota barred any limit at all, akin to feudal England.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • His response might seem callous given that millions of Afghans face a return to the dark ages of feudal Taliban rule.
    — CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Gone are the tropes of the previous mainline games, replaced with an open world set in the ancient past, heavily based on feudal Japan.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • His wish is granted, the body appearing on the grounds of the mansion that rules over the peasant’s feudal community.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Ronin takes its name from the samurai warriors of feudal Japan who did not serve any particular lord.
    — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • So far the British monarchy, one of the last vestiges of the country’s feudal system, has proved a splendid refutation of Marxism.
    — The Economist, 14 Jan. 2020
  • These throwing weapons were used by ninjas, the mysterious covert agents of feudal Japan, 430 years ago.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Sicily was making selling citrus fruits around the world after the breakdown of the old feudal order.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The book, about a rebellious teen girl living in the English feudal system of 1290, has been beloved by readers for nearly three decades.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Ubisoft has one last card to play in 2024, the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows where players will fight as a samurai and a ninja in feudal Japan.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The ninja were seen as covert agents of feudal Japan, who relied on espionage and strategy.
    — David Aaro, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2020
  • This year's samurai theme honors the military caste that rose to prominence in feudal Japan over many centuries.
    — Kimi Robinson, azcentral, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The true story of the first and only African samurai in feudal Japan who rose from being a slave for the Jesuits to fighting as a samurai in the unification of Japan.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The Count has recently abolished the feudal droit du seigneur, the legendary right of the master of an estate to sleep with his female servants on their wedding night.
    — Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • That was before the rules kicked in, before the fortresses had been erected and their feudal lords had exiled anyone who dared deviate too much from the norm.
    — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018

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