Example sentences for: heiress

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

  • But The Heiress , for all its un-Jamesian blood and thunder, remains the truer adaptation.

  • In 1996, the Enquirer hired two private investigators to stake out the home of a Little Rock heiress rumored to be having an affair with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.

  • --A brash young man (Kirk Douglas) plots to marry a rich heiress but finds himself smitten instead with her mute widowed grandmother (Lillian Gish).

  • John is Virginia hunt country and the former husband of both a Mellon heiress and Elizabeth Taylor.

  • As Catherine, James' plain, artless heiress to whom life has simultaneously dealt a very good and a very bad hand, Leigh is so busy projecting her plainness and artlessness that she neglects, for most of the film, to pull the audience in.


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