Example sentences for: magnate

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

  • Real estate magnate Abe Hirschfeld's flamboyant offer to pay Jones $1 million is not part of the settlement.

  • 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.

  • A new biography prompts a round of comparisons between the Standard Oil magnate (1839-1937) and Microsoft's CEO, Bill Gates--both exploit(ed) labor and use(d) unfair tactics to dominate new industries.

  • "The Beast stands for strong, mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," says the press magnate, Lord Copper, in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop . That is a pretty good attitude to have about domestic politics.

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


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