How to Use magnate in a Sentence

magnate

noun

• This week, the French magnate has shed as much as $13 billion in wealth.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 9 Oct. 2024
• The tech magnate continued to fume about the state law last week.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
• His father, Raymond, was a steel magnate and something of a tyrant.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Here’s a look at the life of media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
  — CNN, 18 Feb. 2022
• The winter hasn't been so kind to the Houston furniture magnate.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 23 Jan. 2023
• But no magnate besides Gates has met one-on-one with the president.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 16 June 2023
• One Russian magnate’s dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events that will take the world to the brink of chaos.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
• The owner, a Greek shipping magnate, then used the yacht just twice before listing it.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2021
• Chris Walken was going to play the Trump-like real estate magnate.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
• The bet didn’t pay off for the Houston furniture magnate, but that hasn’t forced him to sever ties with D-FW teams.
  — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
• Still, two dozen others join the ranks for the first time, including auto magnate Roger Penske and a young Steve Ballmer.
  — Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
• Things haven't gone quite as well lately though for the furniture magnate.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 4 Feb. 2022
• His work caught the eye of a local real estate magnate, John Portman, who hired him.
  — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• The Bellagio, opened by casino magnate Steve Wynn, was designed to change all that.
  — Brett Martin, Bon Appétit, 8 Nov. 2023
• Built by chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. in the late 1920s, the Biltmore has hosted presidents and movie stars.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024
• Customers who caught onto the magnate’s whereabouts began to crowd shopping malls to get a glimpse of him.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 June 2023
• The billionaire mining magnate owns a vast portfolio of real estate and yachts and a stake in the Bank of Cyprus.
  — Stacy Permanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• In the summer of 1899 the railroad magnate E. H. Harriman took his family and some friends on a tour of the Alaska coast.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
• Branson has already been the first billionaire space magnate to ride his own ship.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 19 July 2021
• After Mudd died in 1884, coal and iron magnate Henry F. Debardeleben bought it.
  — al, 22 Dec. 2021
• In fact, the shoe magnate’s hotel is an entirely new, ground-up design.
  — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2024
• Oil magnate Harry Sinclair, who was embroiled in the Teapot Dome bribery scandal, paid just $213.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
• The Bengals lost, of course, and the result capped off a run of bad beats that saw the furniture magnate lose more than $15 million on sports gambling in a five-week stint.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 7 Sep. 2022
• Huff is now suing the late hedge fund magnate’s estate in federal court.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 26 Oct. 2021
• Along with these issues, the talk show magnate has been in the middle of an ongoing legal battle with her bank.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 3 May 2022
• Once owned by the late hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, the main house opens into a grand foyer with a sweeping staircase.
  — Sandra Barrera, Orange County Register, 10 Sep. 2024
• The characters talk that way because so many people, magnate and mortal alike, talk that way.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2021
• The Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim, one of the richest men in the world, is another client.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2022
• But in typical Swift fashion, the pop superstar and music magnate didn’t release the book through any of the biggest publishing houses.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
• Spanning the 20th century, the story follows Emma Harte, who goes from a teenage servant in Yorkshire to a retail magnate and is faced with deciding who should carry on her legacy.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025