Examples of “potentate” in a Sentence

noun A ruler with great power, such as a king or emperor.

• Bad news for a certain kind of pedantic patriot (look away now, Jacob Rees-Mogg). Prince Charles has debased the English language – and in a letter to a foreign potentate, no less. — David Shariatmadari, Ize on the prize: is Prince Charles the last guardian of British spelling? (2019)
• Anyone expecting such a speech has forgotten that Trump’s first impulse is to please. He is constitutionally incapable of displeasing a live audience, let alone a foreign potentate who has recently lassoed him with a golden chain. — Graeme Wood, Trump Complies Perfectly With the Saudi Line (2017)
• Life for ordinary barons in Outremer Jerusalem was probably better than for kings in Europe, where even potentates wore unlaundered wool and lived in bare-stone draughty keeps with rough furniture. — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East (2011)