Example sentences for: tycoon

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

  • It is hard to imagine a tycoon emeritus at the mercy of a wife and daughter who park him at home while they travel the globe.

  • In an interview with Le Figaro , Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky--the man known as the "Rasputin of the Kremlin" because of his allegedly central role in all major political maneuvers in Russia--denied that he has ever supported the Chechen warlords and blamed them for the recent wave of terrorist bomb attacks.

  • When a self-made millionaire businessman (Bill Murray) delivers a cynical, derisive speech to the privileged student body, Max recognizes a kindred spirit and aggressively befriends the tycoon, eventually enlisting him in his extravagant aquarium scheme.

  • The Prime Mover of Wealth was no longer a great industrialist who rode herd on thousands of corporate slaves, or the great politician who rode herd on the nation's finances, or the great Wall Street tycoon who bankrolled a new enterprise.

  • Canadian tycoon Conrad Black's Daily Telegraph of Britain expanded its campaign against Rupert Murdoch Wednesday by accusing him of censoring coverage of China in his London newspaper (and Telegraph rival) the Times.


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