Esquire

Example Sentences

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Among his recommendations, Rees-Mogg asks that “all non-titled males” are given the abbreviation Esq., for esquire, after their name.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2019

OK, esquire, but I go back to what I was taught on the first day of law school: 1.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2018

One of the last Senators to be born an esquire, Burnet Rhett Maybank, 55, died last week of a heart attack.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Calvin Klein is the icon of minimalism, Ralph Lauren the elegant esquire and Donna Karan the workingwoman's tailor, Jacobs is the eclectic sampler who has ushered in an era of sophisticated charm in fashion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frodo gave way; and Gandalf, as if he were their esquire, knelt and girt the sword-belts about them, and then rising he set circlets of silver upon their heads.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien