(v. t.) To enerta/n in a regal or sumptuous manner; to enrtertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh; as, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.
(v. i.) To feast; t/ fare sumtuously.
(v. t.) A sumptuous repast; a banquet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(2) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(3) Some European officials, including senior British figures, argue that the gains in efficiency achieved by appointing an international envoy with vice regal authority would be outweighed by the Kabul government's further loss of legitimacy.
(4) Once humans have gained "total mastery over morphological genetics", post-60,000 years from now, we'll be tweaking our children's DNA so that they're born with straight noses, regal lines and perfect facial symmetry.
(5) That disconcerting height, always looming, regally.
(6) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
(7) An event like the Golden Globes puts movie stars in a regal position.
(8) "He regaled me with some anecdotes of BBC inefficiency.
(9) When his deal to buy Leeds was confirmed, he invited journalists to his lawyers’ office in London, regaling the assembled crowd with outlandish tales of pot-washing in 1970s England and sincerely inviting a reporter to play with his rock band in Sardinia.
(10) The top five cinema chains – Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment – have all dropped plans to screen the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter .
(11) But reason will be no barrier to more of the sort of visionless and destructive dogma the Australian prime minister regaled the loggers with in Parliament House this week.
(12) He said he was continuing to try to ease tense relations with large cinema chains, such as AMC and Regal Entertainment, which had refused to screen The Interview after the hackers made threats of violence .
(13) An hour later, Obama and Trump will be joined by Vice-President Joe Biden, his successor Mike Pence and their spouses for a cup of coffee or tea in the White House’s regal Blue Room.
(14) As the wine flowed Humphrey, who had lived all his life in Oxford and knew all the skeletons in all the cupboards of the city, regaled us with increasingly scandalous stories of town and gown in his wonderfully clear, enthusiastic - and carrying - voice.
(15) At times Clinton projected an almost regal bearing.
(16) At a rally with her husband in Spartanburg, South Carolina, last weekend, she regaled the crowd with nothing more revelatory than the promise that her husband “will be the best president”.
(17) Throughout the convention, relatives and business associates lined up to regale the audience with tales of the nominee’s financial acumen.
(18) In the formal photograph, King Hamad was a diplomatic distance away from the Queen, though that was because the seating appeared to be arranged on length of regal service.
(19) No one could’ve been more suitable for this role than he, who bubbled away his evenings in Simpson’s in the Strand or the Cafe Royal, who spent royally when he had money and borrowed regally when he didn’t, and whose contacts with the working class – with the exception of servants – were at once amatory and pecuniary.
(20) December 24, 2016 William Regal (@RealKingRegal) Sad to hear of the passing of Rick Parfitt of Status Quo.Wether you liked them or not,if you are British you knew them.They had a great run.
Regle
Definition:
(v. t.) To rule; to govern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Klaus Regling, who runs the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which is to get its first test in bailing out Ireland, told German newspaper Bild: "No country will give up the euro of its own will: for weaker countries that would be economic suicide, likewise for the stronger countries.
(2) Klaus Regling said the Eurogroup and the ESM board would "take another look" at the issue of direct bank recapitalisation, once Europe has agreed a single eurozone banking supervisor* * - at present, Spain's hopes of an early injection of much-needed capital into its banks is being thwarted by the row over banking supervision.
(3) Klaus Regling, the German in charge of the fund, was also sceptical.
(4) Both Weber and Regling dismissed talk of a systemic risk to the euro's viability.
(5) Regling countered complaints in Germany that the bailouts were at the expense of the German taxpayer, arguing that Berlin stood to gain hundreds of millions from the rescues.
(6) Klauis Regling, head of the temporary EFSF, told reporters that the ESM is already starting to pitch investors.
(7) Klaus Regling , who runs the European Stability Mechanism, has argued that Spain isn't prepared to take the plunge and ask for a bailout because its bond yields are in safe territory at present.
(8) After issuing a paper about how to enhance the EFSF's firepower, Regling blamed the Greek political crisis for yesterday's difficulties in placing the €3bn bond and insisted that the problems had been exaggerated because German bonds are trading at their lowest yield for almost 50 years.
(9) The country paid €2bn to the European Stability Mechanism on Monday, hailed by the fund’s managing director, Klaus Regling, as a sign that Greece was a reliable partner.
(10) Regling said: It depends on the government in Madrid and on market developments...
(11) Alternative candidates mentioned included the Italian central bank governor, Mario Draghi, and Germany's Klaus Regling, who runs the European Financial Stability Facility.
(12) On Monday the 17 finance ministers failed to give any clear guidance on their plans for the EFSF, including its eventual firepower, as Klaus Regling, the fund's chief executive, said he and his team would have to go back to "market participants" to help decide.
(13) In an interview with Germany's Die Zeit, Regling indicated that he didn't expect a request for help from Madrid until yields are in the danger zone.
(14) Updated at 4.01pm BST 3.18pm BST Regling on bank recapitalisation The ESM press conference just ended rather abruptly, but there was one other interesting line to report.
(15) 5.8 S rRNA from the gymnosperm Ephedra kokanica Regl.
(16) Klaus Regling, the managing director of the ESM (who also ran its predecessor, the EFFF) declared that: As of today, the ESM is fully operational..with capacity of €200bn Photograph: Eurogroup Updated at 3.10pm BST 3.00pm BST EU flag burned in Athens today A European Union flag was burned on the streets of Athens today, by pensioners protesting against Greece's austerity programme.
(17) City analysts are watching the succession battle closely, because the ECB faces a crucial decision about when to begin raising interest rates as recovery takes hold – a move that could be potentially devastating for fragile economies such as Ireland and Greece if it is taken too soon.Julian Callow, European economist at Barclays Capital, said that if Regling were to take over from Trichet, the ECB's stance could become slightly less hawkish, but he added: "The lesson of the ECB's history so far is that while the personnel may change, the institution has stuck firmly to its clearly defined mandate 'to maintain price stability'."
(18) One of the top candidates for Trichet's job now appears to be Klaus Regling, who has run the European Financial Stability Facility, the €750bn (£637bn) rescue fund that partly bankrolled the bailout of the Irish economy.