How to Use courtier in a Sentence

courtier

noun

• The president’s non-sequiturs and meandering digressions into cognitive cul-de-sacs were, Biden’s allies and courtiers assured us, a rare species of genius.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 12 July 2024
• Each courtier can bring up to three princesses to make a party of four.
  — Susan Harrison, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
• Ibn Khaldun suffered all the ups and downs of a courtier close to power.
  — Eric Ormsby, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• At the court of Louis XIV, courtiers wore embroidered pink frock coats with their red heels.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2019
• The cost for the girls tea, craft and activity is $20 per person and $25 for each courtier.
  — Susan Harrison, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
• Under the British monarchy, courtiers paid kings for the privilege to fine.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
• Hukka asked the courtier who came into his bedroom to draw back the curtains.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• The Kremlin -- and the Russian elite of courtiers and oligarchs around it -- is not always united in one voice.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
• The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 4 May 2017
• Many of Trump’s current courtiers may be gone in a year of two, but the members of his family will remain.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
• Princess Anne walked into a room where King Charles was surrounded by courtiers.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• At the Palace of Versailles, courtiers regarded the drink as an aphrodisiac.
  — Hugh Hart, WIRED, 7 July 2010
• For a time, courtiers lived one version of the American Dream: home and business combined under the same roof.
  — Andrew Wood, Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
• Fawning courtiers orbiting a king and his consort: that is no way to run a country.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Trump courtiers and wannabes might mill around the lobby of the hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue that bears his name.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• Jamil Joseph leans into the pretentiousness of the courtier Clitander.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• The place was like a courtier in the Palace of Versailles, constantly powdered and perfumed to mask the unpleasant odor beneath.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Egyptian queen’s vast burial complex also includes the tombs of 41 servants and courtiers.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• Donald Trump, by contrast, relies on courtiers who whisper in his ears.
  — David Perry, CNN, 9 June 2017
• But many observers worry that an absolutist king and his courtiers are putting Thailand on course for a fresh round of protest—and the inevitable bloody put-down.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
• But is the courtier engaged in a calculating power move?
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• The courtier inherited the unique dukedom when his father, Miles Fitzalan-Howard, died in 2002.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
• His story of dreamy lovers split apart by scheming courtiers is also a protest against rulers, like the unseen duke, whose riches are wrung from the blood of their people.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 8 June 2018
• He is tricked into joining a delegation to London by a courtier who has eyes for his wife.
  — Dominic Dromgoole, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• The Clintons and the Obamas, it must be said, didn’t just tolerate Weinstein as a donor and fundraiser but welcomed him as a courtier.
  — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Oct. 2017
• So this jibes well with Bennett's courtier of comedy personas.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 June 2024
• Last month, courtiers said that the King had to dip into cash reserves during an expensive royal year.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
• Either way, royal courtiers have woken up to some consequences of the Brexit vote.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2017
• Chanakya argues to the angry courtiers of Pabbatta that Chandragupta has won in a fair manner.
  — Anand Neelakanthan, Quartz India, 20 Dec. 2019
• Some suggested that a bunch of independent rats would serve as caretakers or courtiers to the king.
  — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024