Example sentences for: baron

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

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

  • 6), who gave $436,000 to Democrats and slept in the Lincoln Bedroom; oil baron David Koch (No.

  • 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 !

  • When the film begins, in the early '30s, he (played by Tim Roth) is a white Prohibition beer baron who has muscled his way into the neighborhood numbers racket, shutting down competitors or forcing them to join his operation.

  • Less visible in the Hilfiger threads is the fact that Hong Kong textile baron and businessman Silas Chou owns 35 percent of the Hilfiger Corp.


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