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
In the brave new world of college football, blue blood means nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
Historical references go back many decades, a 1951 story in the Cincinnati Enquirer describing Xavier’s early season losses as having come against teams listed in “college basketball’s blue blood directory.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024
Oh, sometimes I think I must have blue blood in my veins, too.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
