How to Use baron in a Sentence

baron

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Jesse James and his gang rob banks in order to foil a railroad baron who forces people from their homesteads.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2021
• It’s the one moment where the exhibition takes a jab at the robber-baron wealth that built the museum.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Oct. 2020
• Named after the baron, the museum is now one of the most popular in Spain — and the Pissarro is one of its showpieces.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
• God forbid politicians or the press barons tell us what is acceptable.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 Mar. 2023
• The Wyoming game warden becomes a target when taking a tech baron on an elk-hunting trip.
  — New York Times, Star Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
• The smuggler, played by Michael Pitt, soon becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron (Ashina).
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• Her father served in the British Army before going into business, and her mother was the daughter of a baron.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
• But at the turn of the 20th century, American sugar barons came to exploit Hawaii's rich resources.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• On the third weekend of January 1978, the baron joined friends for a hunting party in Sologne, a thickly forested region in the Loire Valley.
  — Tom Sancton, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
• As the second son of a baron, North missed out on his family’s inheritance, which went entirely to the first son.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2021
• That would cover a Black Cube hired by a Harvey Weinstein, as a film-industry baron.
  — Paul Starobin, Wired, 17 July 2021
• But most of his speech was an us-versus-them rally cry against Southern Pacific and the country’s railroad barons.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
• Actually, more have migrated to this Texas city, where the oil barons of the J.R. Ewing era are giving way to the young, caviar-bumping nouveau riche.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2023
• Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi return, now playing a warrior who’s trying to settle down and the junkyard baron who gives him a job.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• My goal was to spend as much time as possible with the reigning baron of Russia’s tech sector, and to try out Yandex’s new products firsthand.
  — Paul Starobin, Wired, 22 Mar. 2022
• Manchin, on the other hand, is a literal coal baron and the fossil fuel industry’s inside man.
  — Mary Annaïse Heglar, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
• The famous mansion and farm of a Jefferson County coal baron will one day be an event center that hosts rodeos, restaurants and concerts, if all goes to plan.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 14 Sep. 2023
• Yet another big tech baron is beckoning workers back to the office.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 8 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024