Example sentences for: princely

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

  • The Back Lakes District contains many landmarks of old Beijing — from princely mansions to old temples and gardens — but it is best known for its colorful alleyways and traditional courtyard houses.

  • A few gripes from the fringes: According to the Village Voice 's Richard Gehr, although beautiful to look at, the film is "numbingly formulaic" and rife with the usual Disney clichés: "absent parents, unthreatening yet princely hero, perky but ditzy heroine, swarthy villain, cute sidekicks, hugs, lessons, and a CD's worth of forgettable pop tunes."

  • Siddhartha grew up in princely luxury, but when he was taken out one day to the edge of the royal parks, he saw the poor, the sick, and the aged.

  • The neighborhoods north of the Forbidden City are the most scenic in Beijing, encompassing imperial parks and lakes, temples and towers, princely mansions, and some of the city’s most interesting older neighborhoods.

  • He is receiving such a princely sum from the University of Illinois not just because he's famous--or notorious--but because he was the chief architect of two of the most well-thought-of (though controversial) American academic programs in the 1980s and '90s, Johns Hopkins University's Humanities Center and Duke University's English department.


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