How to Use princeling in a Sentence

princeling

noun

• True to form, Trump’s own princeling has not made his own thoughts known about the events last week.
  — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 23 Aug. 2017
• But princelings have, for the most part, been less affected.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• In the coming months, a place of respite—or at least a refuge from the cries of princelings—may be particularly precious to the Prince.
  — Melanie Broder, Town & Country, 10 May 2013
• The only child of an heiress and judge, Cohn was an outer-borough princeling, that borough being the Bronx.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Ashley’s first date with R&B princeling Tevin Campbell?
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
• Will Yun Lee shines as Colonel Moon, a renegade princeling with hovercrafts and rage issues.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• Kannauj is a four-hour drive from Agra and just shy of two hours from historic Lucknow, a former princeling state governed by the Nawabs of Oudh.
  — Travel, 4 Jan. 2021
• The young princeling rose quickly through the ranks, and in 2002 he was named the party secretary of Zhejiang province, on China's eastern coast.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
• Prince George, the third in line to the British throne, turns 6 tomorrow—and to mark the occasion, Kensington Palace has released new portraits of the little princeling.
  — Tess Kornfeld, Glamour, 21 July 2019
• The Lars homestead is well-automated, though, so Luke comes off like a joyride princeling, still playing with a toy spaceship.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• That’s uniquely true of Oedipus, the limping princeling fated to kill his father and marry his mother.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• Some bonsai are hundreds of years old, their lineage recorded as carefully as any princeling’s.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• For a time, Mr Wu was backed by powerful princelings, as the descendants of revolutionary leaders are known.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• The kids are a little lame, frankly, though Ethan Hazzard has fun as a clerical princeling maintaining aristocratic dignity in a grungy mud colony.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• In this case, a nefarious princeling hellbent on conquering his own father's kingdom.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2020
• His daughter is a prominent adviser and spokeswoman for the regime; his son-in-law, a tycoon princeling who once mismanaged a small media house, serves as an envoy to kingdoms and republics elsewhere.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2017
• The princeling president As the struggle in China over financial market reform illustrates, many more people, and many more interests, have stakes in how things are now than in previous eras of reform.
  — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2014
• One of their favourite princelings indulges in such spectacular double standards quite transparently.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 30 Dec. 2019
• In less than 24 hours, the 36-year-old real estate princeling had repeated all the textbook mistakes of American diplomacy in the Middle East, and rendered his visit ineffectual at best, if not a step backward.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2017
• California governor Gavin Newsom is a princeling of progressivism who has ascended to the summit of political power in one of the bluest states in the country, and yet is in real danger of suffering a humiliating defeat.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Aug. 2021
• But the princeling’s case may be different because the public is increasingly unwilling to indulge the double standards long enjoyed by families who were lionized a generation ago for helping to turn South Korea into a manufacturing powerhouse.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2017
• But the princeling's case may be different because the public is increasingly unwilling to indulge the double standards long enjoyed by families who were lionized a generation ago for helping to turn South Korea into a manufacturing powerhouse.
  — Youkyung Lee, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2017
• Chinese princelings organizing lavish bachelor parties at the Trump International Las Vegas!
  — Ben H. Winters, Slate Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024