How to Use baron in a Sentence

baron

noun

• This is what its collection of kings, princes, counts, dukes, barons, sheikhs, rajas and generals came up with?
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017
• Greg Carr is perhaps the most committed of the eco-barons and Gorongosa the most ambitious project.
  — James Zug, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• Back-the-Clock theme that recognizes the Barons during the 1950s.
  — Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 30 May 2017
• The 86-year-old media baron has long been a controversial force in British politics.
  — Meg James, latimes.com, 20 June 2017
• Rockefellers knocked elbows with Vanderbilts and Whitneys; dukes bumped up against earls and barons.
  — Edward Dolnick, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• Create unlimited bloody marys (with vodka), bloody baron (with bourbon) or bloody maria (with tequila) for $18 per person.
  — Shelbie Lynn Bostedt, RedEye Chicago, 5 June 2017
• Many robber barons of the Gilded Age actually built useful things and provided jobs for millions.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 15 July 2017
• And yet the policy of the Republicans is to further increase such inequality to levels beyond even the robber-baron era.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 23 June 2017
• Find the button that opens up the floor to see the baron’s tomb.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
• In 1938, the bandshell was added by beer baron Emil Blatz.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
• Lick, who died in 1876, was a wealthy land baron and patron of the sciences.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• No one doubts that the 150-year-old house, built by a lumber baron, needs work.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• That does not just mean the overweening clout of the tech titan or the oil baron.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• The other coal baron is Jim Justice, who is one of the richest men in the state.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
• She is later captured and finds love with the baron who led the onslaught.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
• The hotel was financed and named for the great St. Louis beer baron Adolphus Busch.
  — Dallas News, 24 May 2022
• Guise dismounted, drew his sword, and called on the baron to do likewise.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
• And my bad guy was a coal baron, who was also the father of Kimble’s dead wife.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• By the turn of the 20th century, Milwaukee became known as the city of beer barons.
  — Mike Pramik, USA TODAY, 6 June 2018
• The greatest of the tip-trust barons, known as the Hatcheck King, brought in the equivalent of sixty million dollars a year.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The house was built in 1885 when lumber, not autos, was the big source of wealth, by lumber baron Lucien Moore.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2019
• The silver barons of the 18th century built its mansions.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2019
• King Albert of Belgium bestowed on Mr. Frere the title of baron in 1994.
  — Patrick McGroarty, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• The king has made him a baron and appointed him the lord keeper of the privy seal, an office that gives him even more access to the king.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2020
• Following the baron’s death, the museum closed its doors in 2007.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024
• The château dates back to 1698 and was built by the baron and military governor of Maastricht, Daniël Wolf van Dopff.
  — Michelle Gross, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2024
• But this one is so wrong that perhaps even Joe Manchin, a coal baron, realizes it.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 29 July 2022
• After all, Log Haven was built by a steel baron in 1920 as an anniversary gift for his wife.
  — Heather May, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2020
• The troubled site was given to the church in the 1950s by the family of oil baron Edward Doheny.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• Since then, Houston's economy has flourished first as a port and then as a nexus of oil barons.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024