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
  • 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

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