grandee

Example Sentences

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Ms. Cheever began to understand that his stories came at least partly from the tension between his private feelings of shame and the effort to maintain his respectability as a literary grandee and paterfamilias.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

However, a Welsh Labour grandee said the party was facing "the biggest kicking in our history".

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

Later, in Mexican California, another grandee family, the Sepulvedas, became masters of the land, now renamed Rancho Palos Verdes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

Mr Campbell said he believed the inquiries into his affairs related to a story involving the finances of Labour grandee Peter Mandelson, published on Christmas Eve in 1998.

From BBC • May 23, 2023

He dressed impeccably and had the manners of a grandee.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson