blue blood
Example Sentences
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Before his senior year, he could become the centerpiece of a feverish bidding war between blue blood programs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.
From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026
He also came from Belgium by way of UC Santa Barbara—a far cry from a college hoops blue blood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
Both have learned that being considered a blue blood doesn’t put extra points on the scoreboard.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024
“The blue blood of America put it before their names, as Van Nicken; political society puts it after, as Sullivan.”
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by O'Rell, Max
