heiress
Example Sentences
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The roughly 19,000-square-foot house, designed for an oil-and-banking heiress and her husband, is the most expensive for sale in Fort Worth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Originally developed by Prescott T. Stevens for a Chicago heiress, the compound was designed to impress—an ethos that still very much defines it today.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
The heiress previously acknowledged criticism she got online for her privileged position.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 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
Either she’s an heiress with money to invest, or she’s in trouble and needs a lawyer to help her.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
