heiress

Example Sentences

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It was eventually sold for $85 million in 2011 to Formula 1 heiress Petra Ecclestone.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026

This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Mar-a-Lago, meaning “sea to lake” in Spanish, was built by breakfast-cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in the 1920s, and in her late years she envisioned it as a winter retreat for presidents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

The painting shows Lederer, an heiress and the daughter of one of Klimt's patrons, wearing a white robe and stood in front of a blue tapestry covered in Asian motifs.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

Grace Windsor Wexler wrote housewife, crossed it out, wrote decorator, crossed it out, and wrote heiress.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin