ruler

[ˈruːlər]

Definition:
1. Measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths.
2. A person who rules or commands.

Use 'ruler' in a sentence:

1. The difference between the sum of money he collected and the sum of money he gave to the ruler was his profit.
2. The legislative body had voted to oust the country's onetime rulers.
3. The present ruler, Prince Rainier III, succeeded to the throne on 9 May 1949.
4. What the military rulers have done is to restore the outward appearance of order.
5. Excuse me, is this your ruler?
6. This ruler has a scale in centimetres.
7. It was the country's rulers who devised this system.
8. Align the ruler and the middle of the paper.
9. Feudal rulers ruled over the country several thousand years.
10. He was a weak-willed and indecisive ruler.
11. This ruler has only one scale in centimetres.
12. This ruler is made of plastic.
13. This is my sharpener, pencil, and ruler.
14. The queen of England is a hereditary ruler.
15. The next day, Venus—planetary ruler of Libra—turns retrograde.
16. Monaco became familiar to Americans when its ruler, Prince Rainier, married the American actress Grace Kelly.
17. This ruler has one scale in centimetres and another in inches.
18. There are five markers and one ruler in the box.
19. That is my new ruler. It is very nice.
20. He is the toughest military ruler yet and has responded harshly to any dissent.
21. When he was a man, Confucius became the ruler of the city of Changtu.
22. Of course the tax collector managed to collect more money than he paid to the ruler.
23. Each person bowed before the ruler, his gold went onto one hip, his silver went onto another hip, and in this way he paid his income tax for the year.
24. Many conquered nations had to pay tribute to the rulers of ancient Rome.
25. The small arrows on the ruler are used for indenting paragraphs.
26. Michelangelo was appointed by the ruler of Florence, Italy, to build a snowman in his mansion's courtyard.
27. My ruler is broken.
28. Of course, the tax collector managed to collect more money than he paid to the ruler.
29. He measured his feet with a ruler and then wrote down his size on a piece of paper.
30. There is a pen, a knife and a ruler in the box.
31. Cao was a small state hemmed in between Jin and chu, and the safety of its ruler was as precarious as a pile of eggs.
32. Where's my ruler?
33. It is said that a Chinese ruler called Shen Nong was the first to discover tea as a drink.
34. I picked up a metal ruler on the counter and swung open the door.
35. The ruler is shorter.
36. By this time, Mark Antony had palled up with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Octavian beat both of them, and he became the sole ruler of the empire in 27 BCE.
37. My daughter would not let the optician anywhere near her face with the small plastic ruler.
38. All the citizens trusted him because he was a just ruler.
39. Put your ruler into the bag.
40. Castles were lived in by rulers and powerful people.
41. Stalin was the unquestioned ruler of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until his death in 1953.
42. This is a ruler graduated in both inches and centimetres.
43. Current studies of early modern absolutism—rule by one person with absolute authority—emphasize continual negotiations between ruler and ruled.
44. There has a pencil-box, an eraser, a book and a ruler.
45. "I trust the ruler more than my feet." he answered.
46. Her brother is the king, but she is the effective ruler.
47. He cracked me on the head with a ruler.
48. The ruler cracked and splintered into pieces.
49. Put your ruler down. Put your rubber down.
50. His guitar makes a noise like a wooden ruler being twanged upon a desk.
51. Legend has it that it was Lei Tzu, wife of the Yellow Emperor, ruler of China in about 3000 BC, who discovered silkworms.
52. Pat, this is my ruler.
53. Feudal rulers often branded those who rebelled against them as traitors and heretics.
54. The former military ruler of Lesotho has been placed under house arrest.
55. The original elections were declared void by the former military ruler.
56. The land was simply appropriated by the rulers.