beau

When I ask for his American political beau ideal, he says Alexander Hamilton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

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

Octavia, in which a gushing party girl falls instantly in love with a blond, sharp-cheeked beau called Jeremy, later became an ITV series.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025

I watched a young woman who came in, found her table, put her head down, and went to sleep while awaiting her beau.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

This is a huge limitation, as Flock has been used by officers to track not just exes but the new beaus with whom they have moved on.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

As fate would have it, all that time spent researching how bats find their beaus may have led to another pairing.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 14, 2024

Shortly afterward, the two were out and about on a double date with their beaus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

The director Sara Gunnarsdottir ruthlessly illustrates the gulf between the high schooler’s florid romanticism and her beaus, who are, mostly, a parade of creeps.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

Perhaps after November after I prove up, I can think about beaus.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

The entire family showed up, including Kylie Jenner in a white ballgown with a matching hat and big sister Kourtney Kardashian in deconstructed Thom Browne to go with beaux Travis Barker’s Thom Browne suit.

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2022

After climbing a dusty marble staircase, visitors are ushered into a parlor dimly lit by a beaux arts chandelier where workers tramp in and out carrying glasses of steaming tea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2019

Or was she, as I’d rather think, cutting up her cardboard beaux in her mind even as she created them, and laughing at her public as much as at her characters?

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2017

The book, as it stands, feels ominously loveless, more hospitable to dolts than to eligible beaux, yet at least seven writers have sought to flesh it out and, in so doing, to warm it up.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017

Darlene cleared her throat and enunciated carefully, “There sure was plenty beaux at the bowl, honey, but I still got me honor.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole