Recent Examples on the WebUrie, a Drama Desk award winner, expertly plays the princeling as a well-meaning, but woefully awkward nerd who is hopelessly smitten from the moment Winnifred hauls herself onstage covered in leeches.—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2024 Even princelings, including one of Deng’s sons, lost their elections.—Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022 But the antagonist is not so much a professional criminal as a corporate princeling who abuses his wealth and privilege.—Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023 If the trial of Bo Xilai, a princeling and former Politburo member in China, had been a TV drama, the closing credits for directing and scripting would have gone to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party’s secret anti-corruption body.—Pin Ho, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2013 See all Example Sentences for princeling
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