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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the past, many courted the billionaire Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, who died in 2021.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Her family — the scions of the late publishing magnate, Robert Maxwell — is sticking by her.
  — Mallika Sen, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2021
• Scores of Tri-Stars were commissioned by royals and oil magnates, but those vehicles were rarely kept stock.
  — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2024
• The daughter of a confectionary magnate, Akie grew up in a wealthy and privileged family in Tokyo.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 11 July 2022
• The company boasts a $462 billion market cap, and the man behind the curtain is French business magnate Arnault.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
• At the top of the very first Forbes 400 list was Daniel K. Ludwig, a shipping magnate, estimated by the magazine to be worth more than $2 billion.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The third person, Williams said, was Leslie Wexner, the billionaire retail magnate who once employed Epstein to manage his fortune.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
• Trump has taken up an idea floated by Musk to create a government efficiency commission, and said the tech magnate would be a big part of the commission.
  — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024