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Example sentences for: mogul
How can you use “mogul” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Also ranked: movie mogul Louis B. Mayer, McDonald's mogul Ray Kroc, and marketing mogul Leo Burnett.
The battle started last summer when prodigal mogul Mike Ovitz rode back into town, founded AMG, and proclaimed his intention to reinvent "the architecture of the industry."
Her mother, Joanne Simpson, is widely assumed to be a prototype for Adele August, the exuberantly selfish mother in Anywhere But Here ; her brother, Apple Computer's Steve Jobs, is similarly thought to be a prototype for Tom Owens, the biotech mogul in her last novel, A Regular Guy . (To read an ambivalent Harvard Advocate article by Simpson's niece, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, about her own story's being appropriated in the latter work, click here.)
Charged up by the rhythms of the crowd, his newfound candor, and the sight of a dishy, dreadlocked young woman (Halle Berry), Bulworth embarks on a hallucinatory odyssey that includes a stop at Kentucky Fried Chicken; a fund-raiser at a mogul's mansion, at which he lectures the appalled "big Jews" on their greed and the lousiness of their movies; and a visit to the bowels of the inner city, where he placates gun-toting black juveniles by buying them ice cream and standing up to the white cops who stop to harass them.
The irony, though, is that while Karmazin is the new-model media exec ("mogul" being a word that doesn't fit), one of his greatest strengths is his ability to recognize the value of the seemingly mundane.