How to Use baroness in a Sentence

baroness

noun

• The baroness, who went blind, died in a Bamberg monastery in 1796.
  — Fox News, 6 Aug. 2019
• After a split in the ménage à trois, the baroness and one of her partners vanished.
  — Allison Amend, New York Times, 23 June 2017
• He later was granted a peerage, making Jane a baroness.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
• The airship gondola further serves as the baroness’s dressing room.
  — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• Other cast members include a triple baroness and the son of a Nigerian chief, but Tyler views his role on the show differently.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2018
• The elaborate setups waned in the 19th century, and the dogs neared extinction during World War II, before a baroness set out to bring them back.
  — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2018
• After working briefly at the von Trapps’ Vermont farm as the baroness’s assistant, Ms. Cloherty joined the corps anyway.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• The Queen can choose from five titles for a man -- duke, marquess, earl, viscount or baron -- and for a woman -- duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 19 May 2018
• For women, the titles are: duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess, and baroness.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 23 May 2018
• Ultimately, Lockhart gets drawn into a morbid tale about the spa’s history, involving a mad baron, a baroness, his sister and the villagers who burned the place to the ground.
  — Katie Walsh, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2017
• Ferdinand Marcos was supposed to buy it, but was deposed before a sale was finalized; a baroness briefly had the sultan of Brunei intrigued.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• Nobody is as extraneous this time around, including a great Hope Davis as an oil baroness with a keen interest in both Della and Ham.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2023
• Stone plays the fashionista Estrella, a young girl with a flair for design who teams up with a pair of fellow mischief-makers and sets her sights on taking down a baroness (Thompson).
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
• While most of the silhouettes’ identities are still unknown, some have been identified through research: an artist, a captain, a baroness and an enslaved woman, to name a few.
  — Smithsonianmag.com, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2023
• The baroness’ charity ball at her Hellman Hall home is where Cruella finally confronts her mother.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 29 May 2021
• Charlotte du Rietz, a worldly Swedish baroness, also chose to be depicted as Diana, dressed in a leopard-pelt robe and a floral choker, bearing a spear.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• The iconic Paris apartment of 20th-century socialite-turned-baroness Pauline de Rothschild immediately jumped to mind.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2021
• Ignazio's father, Ignazio Sr., had married a Sicilian baroness.
  — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2022
• Isabelle was engaged to an officer whose family included a baroness who was arrested for espionage in Chattanooga, Tenn., while surveilling a training camp there.
  — James D. Robenalt, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
• Scotland, who was made a baroness, is also secretary-general of the Commonwealth, an organization of more than 50 nations that were previously part of the British Empire.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• Among them are a Canadian media mogul, a Japanese hospital owner, and an American publishing baroness, though the fiercely private community abides by a rule not to disclose the names of owners to those who don’t belong to the club.
  — Fortune, 8 Dec. 2017
• Nearby, the baron and baroness also built the Ullens School, which offers an international baccalaureate curriculum.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024