Example sentences for: duchess

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

  • On a recent cover, the logo "Look Who's Talking to Star " appeared over stories about singer Mariah Carey and the Duchess of York.

  • This is on a par with the attribution of leave me be to a Celtic origin having something to do with a warning against raiding hives or the ascription of the origin of the name of an obscene prosthetic device to a woman from Water Isle (the Duchess d'Île d'eau ).

  • Mohammed al Fayed, who owns the former Duke and Duchess of Windsor's house in Paris (which he had hoped to make Dodi and Diana's home), recently sold its contents at an auction in New York.

  • One is entitled to speculate on what outrageous proposal the narrator had made in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2—Cities of the Plain (translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff—Modern Library, N.Y., 1934, Page 90) to cause the Duchess to say, “Apart from your balls, can't I be of any use to you?”

  • His sister Lucrezia, forever smeared by anti-Spanish propaganda of the day as mistress of both her father and brother, was in fact, as Duchess of Ferrara, a generous patroness of the arts and benefactress of the poor.


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