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
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
Both have learned that being considered a blue blood doesn’t put extra points on the scoreboard.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024
Joe Barston paid seven hundred and fifty dollars for a four-month-old bull calf whose ancestors had so much blue blood they all but wore monocles.
From The Black Fawn by Kjelgaard, James Arthur
