Example sentences for: magnate

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

  • Or the mulatto barber and real estate magnate of antebellum Natchez (I can't remember his name, but remember, my books are in storage).

  • In the Sunday Telegraph , interviewer Helena de Bertodano said that her first meeting with Brown had been "tense" because a "PR magnate, an elderly man with a cut-glass English accent" had insisted on sitting in on their conversation but that Brown subsequently arranged a one-on-one meeting for the next day.

  • Also over is the 13-year marriage of singer Diana Ross to Scandinavian shipping magnate Arne Naess, who is "worth at least $700 million," according to the Globe . You know there's no hope of reconciliation when your husband blurts out the news of your impending divorce on Good Evening Norway . And according to the Enquirer , the marriage of actor Nicolas Cage and actress Patricia Arquette is kaput.

  • I was practically weeping--weeping, I tell you--when I read the excerpt from the letter the former, great publisher of the Los Angeles Times wrote, castigating Mark H. Willes, chairman and chief executive of Times Mirror Co., and company for the sheer, unmitigated crap (my paraphrasing here) the ex-cereal magnate has been pulling since he took over the now hapless paper.

  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta , a paper controlled by financial magnate Boris Berezovsky, reported that the Moscow Institute of Economic Analysis would show, in research to be published Friday, that Russia faces inevitable bankruptcy and that, by the end of the year at the latest, it will have to admit it can't make payments on its foreign debts.


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