lord and master

Example Sentences

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In a call with Rupert Murdoch, the former president informed Fox’s lord and master, “we have a bad person,” as Murdoch recounted in an email summary to Lachlan and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2023

In the episode “Treehouse of Horror V,” we briefly see a universe in which Ned Flanders is “unquestioned lord and master of the world.”

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2019

"John Ball was the patron saint, emperor, mayor, the lord and master of Hoylake," Pinnington says.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 7, 2014

It isn't bad as albums by boybands go, and doesn't have the awful aura of contemptuous this'll-do common to so much product overseen by One Direction's dark lord and master.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012

That would require ridding her of her present lord and master, to be sure... not to mention the uncle who had married her to him.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin