Example sentences for: countess

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

  • At the southern tip, half hidden in the trees, is Schinkel’s Swiss Cottage, but the island’s principal curiosity is the fake ruin Schloß Pfaueninsel, built in 1797 as a hideaway for Friedrich Wilhelm II and his lover, the Countess Wilhelmine von Lichtenau.

  • The Countess Stauffenberg moved in various artistic circles, befriending Rainer Maria Rilke, among others; it was through her connections that her sons met the poet Stefan George.

  • Swift's “Meditation upon a Broomstick,” for instance, impressed the Countess of Stanford as deeply pious instead of hilariously parodic.

  • First stop, off a side road to Fusina, is Palladio’s La Malcontenta (1571), to which a too-flighty Venetian countess was sent to pine, malcontentedly, in exquisite isolation on the canal.

  • Countess Constance Markievicz led a band of rebels to occupy buildings around St. Stephen’s Green.


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