How to Use allegiance in a Sentence

allegiance

noun
Definition of allegiancenext
Synonyms for allegiancenext
  • He owes allegiance to them for all the help they have given him.
  • Both candidates are working hard to convince voters to switch allegiances.
  • Yet after his death in 1985 his allegiance became clear.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Some people are team tampons, while others pledge allegiance to menstrual pads.
    — De Elizabeth, Allure, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The retro sneakers have earned an allegiance of fans, including tons of A-listers who have worn them on and off the red carpet.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, PEOPLE.com, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Yet, where Sierra’s actual allegiance lies remains to be seen.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The Krakow deli shows its allegiance with Poland’s besieged neighbor by displaying the Ukrainian flag at its counter.
    — cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
  • And political commentators, like myself, who refused to swear allegiance to the new government were squeezed off the air.
    — Stanislav Kucher, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But that’s justifiable when one’s allegiance is entirely geared toward investment returns.
    — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
  • What happens on April 24 will depend on the number of runner-up candidates who are willing to shift their allegiance to Le Pen.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Above all, Kierkegaard’s Either/Or consolidates her allegiance to an aesthetic approach to life.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • When the Dodgers abandoned New York for sunnier pastures, his father stayed loyal, unlike others who shifted allegiances.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • And if Jamie's staking his allegiance to the Sons of Liberty, then that means moving forward, that's going to make their friendship untenable.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Our allegiance was not to Donald Trump that day, but to God and living by the word of God.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The thing about music is that good songs have no allegiance.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023
  • That is, a ruler with no allegiance to Joseph or his people.
    — David Wolpe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Once standing, the group raised their right hands and voices in unity to take the oath of allegiance.
    — Madison Geering, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • The mood was light; the next day, a new government would swear allegiance to its own country for the first time.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 27 July 2022
  • The couple, who met around the same time that the team last won the big game in 2018, let their allegiance to Eagles guide their love — all the way to the altar.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2023
  • People living north of the river did the same, but with allegiance to Puma.
    — Nick Kostov, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Phil Mickelson was among the first to pledge allegiance to the new circuit.
    — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2022
  • Goff’s presence in the North Bay, a 49er stronghold, has split allegiances.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Depending on allegiance, the most egregious call might have been on Rice’s first score of the game.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Schmidt attended the event back in 2011 but his visit to Kyiv last year is proof of where his allegiance lies.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 14 June 2023
  • First item of business: The Vale and the North are not responding to voice mails (which is to say, ravens) asking for their allegiance.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • Over the course of its history, Texas flew six flags, but perhaps there's less allegiance to one of them.
    — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • With the sister-in-laws beefing and the cast split right down the middle with their allegiances, there’s little that the network could do to save them.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 11 Aug. 2024
  • And their allegiance makes good sense: Much like Swift, Abrams is a songwriter first.
    — Rob Ledonne, Vogue, 21 June 2024
  • Declare your allegiance to cake while rocking out to this catchy hit.
    — Seventeen, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The Prince of Wales will pay homage to King Charles, stepping forward to pledge his loyalty and allegiance.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023

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