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
The Rose Bowl will match an ultimate upstart program in Indiana against a blue blood in Alabama.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025
No blue blood wants to fake excitement about schlepping to the Pop-Tart Bowl, no offense to those sentient Pop-Tarts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Quite right! and M. de Juzencourt added that there was only blue blood in his family.
From Bijou by Gyp