rajah

Example Sentences

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It could be a wedding feast, perhaps, thrown by a rajah to celebrate the marriage of one of his sons — some occasion for which no expense would be spared.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2022

He’s often called the “sultan of sequins, the rajah of rhinestones” and has won numerous Emmy Awards for his designs and been nominated for Academy Awards.

From Washington Times • Apr. 18, 2016

He's often called the "sultan of sequins, the rajah of rhinestones" and has won numerous Emmy Awards for his designs and been nominated for Academy Awards.

From US News • Apr. 18, 2016

We’d carried him up the stairs like a drunken rajah.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015

The rajah sunk into a state of slothful dissipation, varied by the occasional intemperate exercise of the power left him within the limits of the fortress, his residence.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various