How to Use grandee in a Sentence

grandee

noun

• The slum kid who dressed like a British grandee had something of the scam artist about him.
  — Benjamin Moser, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Trump had just cut through the grandees like a hot knife through butter.
  — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 24 Mar. 2017
• One is a grandee of Wall Street dealmaking, the other a scion of Goldman Sachs.
  — Sonali Basak, Bloomberg.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• The role usually goes to grandee of the City of London, the financial district.
  — David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Sometimes the mist clears to reveal solutions, but only those a grandee could love.
  — William Easterly, WSJ, 17 June 2019
• Goelet was a grandee, one of the Four Hundred certifiably rich families in New York.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 June 2019
• Yet So far Russia ‘s grandees and people are rallying to the Motherland and its ruler; its huge army is holding.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Grandees have been coming here since the Romans, with their unerring nose for real estate, founded it, from the lords of Genoa and Milan to today’s fashion elite.
  — Alexander Lobrano, Town & Country, 2 June 2017
• With harlots in fish-net stockings hanging on each arm, a self-satisfied grandee, shades and ascot in place, struts down a city sidewalk.
  — Garry Trudeau, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
• And this isn't new — for months party grandees and big donors have been fretting that with Biden running such a feckless campaign, there isn't a strong not-Sanders campaign to unify around.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Jan. 2020
• Local farmers couldn’t own their land and were instead rent-paying tenants of grandees like Nicholas—aristocrats in all but name.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
• Each book in the series seeks to shed some light on the era’s inequities, hypocrisies and the contrasting worlds of privileged grandees and street denizens such as brothel keepers, pickpockets and con artists.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• And all of them are just as much in karmic thrall as the grandees who came before them, undone by ambition, rashness and cosmic retribution.
  — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• The opening in the rim fitted under the grandee’s chin while the barber officiated and courtiers gathered exchanging gossip of the day.
  — Carolyn Patten | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• The result was a vindication for Sanchez, who was ousted by party grandees in September against the wishes of the rank-and-file membership.
  — Esteban Duarte, Bloomberg.com, 21 May 2017
• The first homes in the area were adobes and farmhouses in the style of the American Midwest, but the streetcar brought downtown’s grandees and their large Victorian homes to this former hinterland.
  — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
• Apparently only the African rank and file are so helpless as to require the tender mercies of the World Bank’s notorious grandees.
  — William Easterly, WSJ, 17 June 2019
• First came allies from his two terms as mayor of London, such as Sir Edward Lister, a local-government grandee.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• Sir William Cash, another Eurosceptic grandee, recalls tutoring the young Jacob in the cause.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• Cabbage, brains, pickles and puff pastry follow in the dining room, dished out by a timid floor boy who also furnishes a menu of marks: local grandees with large estates and many serfs.
  — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 2 May 2018
• State Department grandees tended to see these White House advisers as rivals.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• Etched onto it is a circle of faces of superannuated ÖVP grandees.
  — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2017
• Becoming a playwright and theatrical grandee took time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• And on her first mission, this overqualified woman joins H for a night of hedonism diplomacy, showing some sluggy alien grandee a good time in a London nightclub.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 June 2019
• The new setup would be approved by a party conference in December, but that time frame was quickly assailed by party grandees who said a new leader should be found sooner.
  — Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• The drama was divided, as the title implies, between the grandees in the upper rooms and the crew of loyal servants who, from their base of operations down below, saw to their employers’ every need.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2019
• Party grandees are growing concerned that the socialist who until recently wasn’t even a Democrat could roll to the nomination.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• Among cinema’s understated grandees, Luddy will be at a Backlot double bill of the two shorts, shot in California.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 29 Aug. 2019
• Harry Macklowe, meanwhile, was a mild-mannered billionaire real estate investor and social grandee before the gods of Page Six decided to take him up.
  — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 16 Jan. 2018
• The fanciest grandees in Coruscant watch giant undulating bubbles in an opera house.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024