Example sentences for: baron

How can you use “baron” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Thirtysome entries flowed in, for consideration by a jury of 14 experts whose diverse national and professional backgrounds rivaled even the crew of Star Trek --ranging from Baron Philippe Robert-Jones, art historian and permanent secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique in Brussels, to Guido Crapanzano, rector of the Instituto di Scienze della Comunicazione in Milan.

  • Napoléon III had Baron Haussmann transform this remnant of an old hunting forest along the lines of a London park.

  • A young (26) and tattooed bachelor, Lachlan seems an unlikely media baron, but he manages to be simultaneously tough and charming.

  • William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) was a millionaire newspaper baron.

  • I refuse, out of conservatism and sheer curmudgeonliness to give up English grammar (like the “neutral” pronouns of reference) when I cannot paraphrase without losing what little elegance there may be in my writing, and I refuse to sacrifice metonyms, metaphors, allusions, and other figures of speech that contain male referents, substituting “big liar” for Baron Munchhausen and “Peeping Thomasina” for Peeping Tom or trying to get around saying or writing Pollyanna, say uncle, raise Cain , or Jesus Christ !


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