Example sentences for: tycoon

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

  • After Ann left William (whose once-promising career as a salesman had devolved into an impecunious one as a roving violinist), she hooked up with a wealthy Jewish tire tycoon named Joel Jacobs.

  • The neighboring suburb of San Marino was once owned by railroad tycoon Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927), and his fine mansion now houses the Huntington Library (1151 Oxford Road).

  • A piece tells the incredible life story of Carlos Mavroleon, the Eton and Harvard educated son of a Greek tycoon who converted to Islam, joined the mujahideen, became a free-lance TV war correspondent, was arrested by the Pakistani police while trying to sneak into Osama Bin Laden's terrorist camps after the U.S. bombing, and died mysteriously of a heroin overdose days later.

  • Cage plays Tom Welles, an earnest, professionally polite private investigator summoned to the manse of a recently deceased tycoon.

  • the son of a former president, the son of a tycoon, and the wife of a senator," Bauer argued on Late Edition . "I have never run for president or office before.


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