How to Use peerage in a Sentence

peerage

noun

• He was given the peerage after years of devoted service to the community.
• The rank of duke is the top title in the British roll of peerage and one that Philip held for more than seven decades.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
• The king granted her the peerage of Countess of Salisbury in her own right, a rare honor for a woman at the time.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2020
• Again, your mileage may vary, and it probably will be based on your location and peerage.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2018
• It is assumed that he or she will be born in the U.S., and also widely believed that this child will not take a title in accordance with the peerage.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 15 Feb. 2021
• Chen Feng, the firm’s chairman and founder, has the Chinese political titles that are the equivalent of a peerage or knighthood.
  — Sharon Lafraniere, Michael Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
• Lord Carrington was given a life peerage in 1999 after most hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• One thing is for sure: Their eldest son will eventually inherit the title Duke of Sussex, but a daughter cannot per the rules of the British peerage right now.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 15 Oct. 2018
• Many of the reforms have been championed by Lady Newlove, who was given a peerage in 2010 and has held the new post of victims’ commissioner for the past seven years.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2019
• There are also more than a thousand baronets, a title associated with country squires that ranks below a baron and is not part of the peerage.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
• But rules governing the peerage have remained the same, giving priority to boys.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 4 June 2018
• But Lord Carrington and some other former leaders of the body were given life peerages, extending their rights of membership for the rest of their lives.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• The Torlonia, however, earned their peerage for skills other than martial valor.
  — Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
• Firtash partnered with an aristocrat named Raymond Asquith, who now holds a peerage in Parliament.
  — Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• Renée Kuo, the managing director of Debrett's, the authority on British peerage and etiquette, agrees.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2018
• Today, however, the heralds are experts on such things as history and genealogy and provide advice on anything to do with the peerage and royal ceremonies.
  — Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022
• Some holders of actual peerage titles have reportedly sold titles for large sums, but that’s a different matter.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
• His father, Charles Jenkinson, had been a political man of business and parliamentary manager, sufficiently valuable to be raised to the peerage as a reward for his service.
  — Allan Massie, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2018
• Subject to a dizzying hierarchy of peerage and obscure jurisdiction, justice eludes him at every opportunity.
  — Dustin Illingworth, The New Yorker, 20 May 2020

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024