wardenship
Example Sentences
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In Barchester Towers, Mr. Hardinge hopes to regain the wardenship, but Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope want to give it to a poor clergyman with 14 children, who obviously needs it more.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2016
"If your career went the way it was supposed to, by 35 you should have your first junior wardenship," he says.
From Reuters • Apr. 13, 2010
Even after he was President, Franklin Roosevelt took his wardenship seriously.
From Time Magazine Archive
He did just that, using his political prestige and his friendship with Governor Ross Barnett to gain Parchman's wardenship in 1960.
From Time Magazine Archive
Upon assuming the wardenship of Sing Sing, Lewis Lawes sat down with a stack of “musty reports and records that had not been looked at in decades.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
