Example sentences for: proprietors

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

  • The townspeople find the proprietors invasive and insufferably haughty; the owners, in turn, call the locals homophobes and rubes.

  • The NYT and LAT fronts report that Planned Parenthood and several doctors have brought a private federal civil suit against the proprietors of an anti-abortion Web site that suggests abortion providers are like Nazis and groups the names and faces of some doctors providing the procedure on a Wanted Poster-style list it calls the "Deadly Dozen."

  • NIPA personal income includes wages and salaries; interest and dividend income; rental income;2 proprietors' income; government transfer payments, such as Social Security, veterans, and unemployment benefits; and employer contributions to pension plans as well as group health and life insurance plans.

  • In India recently, I went to every bookstore I could find, and even in stores the size of a broom closet in back alleys (where the proprietors surely stocked no book they were not certain they could sell), Stephen King was the second-most-stocked author.

  • The issue pits traditionally Republican Main Street business proprietors against the highflying Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who have contributed more to Mr. Bush's campaign than any other.


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