How to Use robber baron in a Sentence

robber baron

noun

• Tim Scully and Nicholas Sand—were bankrolled by the freaky scions of the Mellon robber baron dynasty.
  — Wired, 28 July 2022
• Meanwhile, the Northeastern robber barons who owned the mills along the river .
  — Rashad Shabazz, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
• Ifirst became aware of the work of French designer Henri Samuel in the mid-1980s, in what might be called his robber baron phase.
  — David Netto, Town & Country, 15 Mar. 2018
• So all these comments about ‘the robber barons are going to come in and steal our property’ are not true.
  — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
• Its logo is sketch of Trump, looking like a robber baron in a top hat running with a bag of money in his arm.
  — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Capitalists aren’t just robber barons and the very rich.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 5 Feb. 2018
• And there’s another lesson from the robber barons—one that some of you and your peers have already embraced.
  — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
• Compared with these finance guys, the robber barons of the past look like Johnny Appleseed.
  — The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• The guest rooms are outfitted with furnishings that would fit well in the backwoods manor of a Gilded Age robber baron.
  — Boyce Upholt, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2022
• The house is a 21st-century version of a Fifth Avenue robber baron mansion: enormous and in your face.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
• In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, America had reined in the behemoths built by robber barons.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
• Saddling up to one of these high-walled behemoths, all men–whether a rummy, rabble rouser, a robber baron or a Roosevelt—were equal.
  — Daniel Arnold, Bon Appetit, 10 Oct. 2017
• The vision of an aging robber baron named Henry Flagler, the route took thousands of workers seven years to complete.
  — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• Like the preps, punks, and robber barons before us, you Fresh Princes of Bit Air must understand that our lifestyle has rules, and any deviation from them could prove ruinous.
  — Mike Albo and Amanda Duarte, Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile, the Northeastern robber barons who owned the mills along the river built majestic music halls to resemble those in New York and Boston.
  — Rashad Shabazz, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2020
• The hotel was named for Collis Huntington, one of the Big Four railroad tycoons often derided as robber barons.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2023
• As the scion of one of the most important oil families from America’s robber baron past, Getty is a throwback to an era of loopy, over-the-top, fashion-embracing heiresses.
  — Meredith Haggerty, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2022
• The charges were dropped and Flagler, bristling at accusations of acting like a heartless robber baron, improved conditions, but the six-day work week on the Keys remained grueling.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
• The lone passenger and his bicycle felt like a 19th century robber baron in his own private railroad carriage.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2020
• And nonprofits can behave just as poorly as any rapacious robber baron.
  — Darius Tahir, Fortune, 18 May 2022
• The new robber barons of the 21st century … are trying to sell the idea of a third category as something that will allow more flexibility than employment.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• This sweeping history of the decades after the Civil War decries the spoliations White sees everywhere among robber barons and corrupt politicians.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• This vintage rail car sleeps two in robber baron splendor, although the accommodations are, by modern standards, compact.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2021
• This country didn’t invent trains, but regards them as wholly American, from the plundering railroad robber barons of the Gilded Age to the notion that steel and steam can master a continent, no matter who or what had to give way.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• Today’s corporate bosses aren’t the robber barons or country-club networkers of yesteryear.
  — Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, WSJ, 12 July 2017
• The steel magnate and other robber barons warded off political challenges to their monopolies for decades before Woodrow Wilson ended them.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Stories about American capitalism tend to have a recognizable villain: the robber baron, the business tycoon, the financial investor, your boss.
  — Jane Hu, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022
• At the very top of this Gilded Age rode the robber barons—the first expert manipulators of the corporation, one of the industrial revolution’s most powerful innovations.
  — Gregory Crouch, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
• New-economy behemoths are exercising a market dominance not seen since America’s robber barons.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• Like 19th century robber barons, today’s tech titans atone their excesses by offering handouts to a public torn between admiration and resentment, between capitalist striving and the daily grind of precarity.
  — Jacob Silverman, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024