beau

Example Sentences

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Will’s beau idéal, Ronald Reagan, used it frequently on the rubber-chicken-and-peas circuit.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

It’s not surprising that Mr. Serrano found his way to Ms. Wilson, who, like Mr. Duncan, the author’s beau ideal of a player, “banks in beauty.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Months into her relationship with Diggs, Cardi B told King she feels “very safe” with her new beau, who she says makes her feel “very confident and very strong.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

It was to be her first time in the pub and also the first time she met Dylan Thomas, a schoolfriend of her new beau.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

He ordered that I be bought a new bag-wig, and my mother a whole series of costly dresses a la mode du beau monde.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson