Example sentences for: tycoons

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

  • The NYT reports on another public buck-up: a group of Indonesian tycoons joined the nation's finance minister for a televised purchase of the local currency.

  • Parallels abound, from tottering President Yeltsin (akin to weak pre-Hitler President Hindenburg) to vulturous oligarchs (Weimar tycoons) to the staggering inflation and recession.

  • Sadly enough, as Italy put on its best face for the nationwide celebration of Jubilee 2000, a series of corruption scandals (tangenti) revealed the dirty and deep-rooted hold of politicians and business tycoons alike that began in the early to mid 1990s.

  • Anyone could have told you about the epic corruption--about tycoons whose empires depended on their political connections and about politicians growing rich in ways best not discussed.

  • The Wall Street Journal dedicates its "World Wide News" front page space to the topic and does a column one take on Hong Kong tycoons.


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