Example sentences for: earl

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

  • Last week Britain lost a princess and found a hero: Charles, Earl Spencer, the angriest brother in the world.

  • The true reasons for the change of heart seem to be an appeal by Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, and a ferocious campaign against Hewitt by the other tabloids.

  • Another campaign was held in 1715 under the Jacobite Earl of Mar, but it was the 1745 rising of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the “Young Pretender,” which became the stuff of legend.

  • The following account of Mr. John Coutts and his family were [sic] communicated by the earl of Dundonald to the editor of the Morning Post, in refutation of anecdotes published in a pamphlet, entitled “Life of Thomas Coutts,” &c.

  • At the same time, the charge made most memorably by her brother, Earl Spencer, at her funeral in Westminster Abbey, that paparazzi were responsible for her death, has been implicitly rejected by her executors, who, according to the Sunday Times of London (quoting "senior royal sources"), are preparing to sue Mohamed al-Fayed's Ritz Hotel in Paris for at least $13 million for allowing the hotel security man Henri Paul to drive her when he had three times the legally permitted amount of alcohol in his blood.


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