knighted in English
He was knighted in 2003 for services to public life in Scotland.
Use "knighted" in a sentence
1. 8 The king knighted the soldier for his valor.
2. Henry knighted thirty Lancastrian soldiers immediately after the battle.
3. He was knighted in 1931 and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933.
4. 28 He was knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list in June 19
5. Beresford was knighted in 1812, and Baroneted - Bagnall County Waterford in 1814 (see here)
6. In addition, one adopted son was knighted and an adopted daughter became another dame.
7. 27 Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.
8. In 1947 Olivier was knighted and Leigh accompanied him to Buckingham Palace for the investiture.
9. “Meanwhile an Englishman —later knighted as Sir Thomas Sopwith— had built a single-hull flying boat.
10. Who was knighted, and lies buried at Dunsten, in Oxfordshire, leaving issue by Mary, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Brocket…
11. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1930 and brigadier in 1933[sentence dictionary], and he was knighted in 19
12. 13 Queen Elizabeth II knighted him with the very sword that Queen Elizabeth I had used almost 400 years earlier to knight Sir Francis Drake after he had sailed round the world for the first time.
13. Turned Crusading into a duty, focus on wining wars and behaving courageously, development of personal strength, knighted was an aristocratic position, codes of behaviour, sense of loyalty to their house and commitment to overlord, development of skills
14. ‘An elderly, Crusty monster of a man, with a voracious appetite for drink, and a vocabulary of approximately twenty words - all of which have subsequently entered the fecking public lexicon.’ ‘Knighted in 1944, he was the traditional Crusty Englishman, on and off the screen; once, after dropping a catch, he stopped play to summon his
15. ‘He was now an author of world renown, a Baronet, the friend of kings and princes and since 1821, Laird of Abbotsford, his new country seat in the Borders.’ ‘Having previously declined a knighthood, Heaton was made a Baronet in 1912.’ ‘In 1608 he was knighted, and was created a Baronet in 1611, two years before his death.’