How to Use baronial in a Sentence

baronial

adjective

• An elderly person of means passes, and the will is read in the study of his baronial home.
  — Star Tribune, 2 May 2021
• The home, with about 160 feet of lake frontage, sits directly across the water from the Wrigley estate, a string of grand homes and baronial boathouses.
  — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• Home was a Scottish baronial mansion with more than two dozen rooms.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
• His brands conjure both a baronial Manhattan penthouse and a beer on the back porch.
  — Vogue, 18 Sep. 2018
• And the optional 23-inch alloy wheels only add to the SUV’s baronial presence.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2022
• The family that had once owned land on a baronial scale now needed charity to eat.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• The grand uptown apartments and their over-the-top aesthetics — Louis Quinze, chintz, baronial splendor — fell out of fashion, at least among the fashionable.
  — Curbed, 8 Nov. 2022
• Who, after all, wouldn’t want to live in the baronial splendor of a home that enchanted upstairs and downstairs personnel alike?
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• The main house, anchored by a baronial great room, leads guests to the Lookout Room and adjoining family room and dining room, all with stunning views of crashing waves and sea.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 16 May 2021
• James, heir to several large fortunes, grew up in West Dean, a baronial pile in Sussex, where he was starved of both playmates and his mother’s affection.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Philanthropy from the McGlothlins, the Streets and the other baronial families that minted fortunes from Buchanan’s coal have helped fund projects in the area, including the law school and the college of pharmacy.
  — Eduardo Porter, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
• Saudi Arabia hosted the president on a baronial scale, with lavish banquets in palaces, his image projected on the side of a building.
  — Mark Landler and Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Hyman appears grubbing and silly in these lines, and reduced to just another child-sized charge in Jackson’s baronial manor—another mouth to feed.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 July 2021
• The high-ceiling bedrooms feature baronial fireplaces, inlaid wood floors and ornate wall panels.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• The building is drenched in history, and the sandstone walls and baronial dining hall make for a very special dining experience to close out your incredible trip.
  — Laura Jung, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Dec. 2019
• The latest iteration of the Amelia Island concours has further solidified its place among the leading car shows in the world, but without much of the baronial pageantry that can be intimidating and even off-putting to some.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2023
• Softly was a vivid dresser and was tonight arrayed in a baronial waistcoat with fobbed pocket watch, cornflower neckerchief, and champagne bomber jacket of distressed leather.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Unquestionably, the most colorful social event of the visit was staged by Ralston at his baronial estate south from San Francisco in Belmont.
  — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
• One of its baronial drawing rooms even made the December 1995 cover of Architectural Digest magazine.
  — Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 27 May 2020
• Ivanka Trump, ever in control of her tone, recommended a craft project involving an elaborate glamping setup in her baronial living room.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2020
• To experience all of that courtesy of 16 clacking slide projectors, the images projected really (really) large in a baronial gallery, is to experience a stunned wonder of one’s own.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• Waving his baronial wand, President Biden on Wednesday canceled student debt for some 40 million borrowers on no authority but his own.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• With these departures, the American era of the baronial chief executive, sitting atop an industrial dominion with all the attendant privileges, is drawing to a close.
  — Nelson D. Schwartz, New York Times, 17 June 2017
• Above all, John provoked the most effective baronial and ecclesiastical revolt of the Middle Ages and endured the humiliation of submitting to its demands.
  — Allan Massie, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• Should Congress enlarge the land grants for grazing, then baronial estates would soon crowd the plains, an aristocratic few owning lands sufficient for a European principality and crowding out the small farmer upon which the nation depended.
  — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
• In the late 19th century, wealthy industrialists started building baronial weekend and summer mansions and estates.
  — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2017
• Ornate details include a baronial fireplace and decorative ceilings.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024