How to Use baron in a Sentence

baron

noun

• No one doubts that the 150-year-old house, built by a lumber baron, needs work.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• 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
• There are other parts of his curriculum vitae that make the barons of golf cringe (and not undeservedly).
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• The young innovators of Silicon Valley were not like the largely amoral barons of industry and finance.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2018
• Passarinho has a gray beard, hollow cheeks, and a long, refined nose that gives him the look of Jules Verne or some other nineteenth-century baron of ink sketches in profile.
  — Longreads, 5 Apr. 2018
• The question is whether the barons of Silicon Valley can move beyond ritual statements of regret and assurance to a genuine self-accounting.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2018
• Find the button that opens up the floor to see the baron’s tomb.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
• Lick, who died in 1876, was a wealthy land baron and patron of the sciences.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Democrats’ own coal baron, Joe Manchin) started tweeting that Joe Biden could pry gas stoves from their cold, dead hands.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
• On June 24, the Italian baron's poems set to music will be performed at Carnegie Hall.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 19 June 2019
• So the stakes going forward remain high for all manner of booze barons.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2020
• The French king had given the baron a second mission: to ensure the former colony took out a loan from young French banks to make the payments.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• The oil barons were still attending these auctions to bid on leases.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
• The baron becomes a unique and distinctive model, worthy of admiration.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024