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

Along those lines, Cronin said, he’d rather be a big boy — a team with the most money — than a blue blood.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

Her hair doesn't comb straight either, but tends to swirls and cowlicks which are proof-positive of her blue blood in the same way that a cold nose is in a woman.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey