How to Use heiress in a Sentence

heiress

noun
  • Barbara Stanwyck portrays a tough-as-nails heiress who, day after day, fails to win the lottery.
    Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • The heiress recalled how her father, who was not yet married to her mother at the time, would visit the apartment and pick her up.
    Audrey Clare Farley, Town & Country, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The problems of a woman alone in New York are exemplified by comments from an heiress.
    Earl Shorris, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The heiress and reality-TV star grinned and threw her arms in the air in a gesture of calculated abandon.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 May 2021
  • Once viewed by the media as a vapid heiress and socialite, Paris Hilton is now having a sort of Parissance in the public sphere.
    Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 5 May 2021
  • Beginning when our protagonist is 13, these books tell the tale of Rose Campbell, orphan and heiress.
    Sarah Schutte, National Review, 9 May 2021
  • The heiress is the largest shareholder of real estate developer Country Garden Holdings.
    Jennifer Wang, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Here is Hilton, credit card–swiping heiress-socialite, known for all of those trips to Kitson and hauling Louis Vuitton monogrammed bags, telling the world to just stop being poor.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 4 May 2021
  • Can its heiress-turned-leader make the brand fast, cheap, and green?
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
  • In the book, our man Fletch is engaged to an heiress from Italy.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The endeavor was to be paid for by the steel heiress Amy Phipps Guest.
    New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Reum, 42, said on Thursday's episode of the heiress's I Am Paris podcast.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The endeavor was to be paid for by steel heiress Amy Phipps Guest.
    Arkansas Online, 13 Feb. 2022
  • If Swiatek is the queen of clay then Pegula is the hard court heiress this summer.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The Hilton heiress tied the knot with Reum in November, and then set off for a honeymoon around the globe.
    Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The heiress added that having a good sense of style all comes down to how your put items together.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But Leslie said at the ceremony last Friday that the young heiress had a plan.
    Joe Hotchkiss, ajc, 29 May 2021
  • Valentine, 65, is an heiress to the Anheuser-Busch fortune.
    Jim Salter, ajc, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Paris Hilton, the American heiress, has arrived on the Met Gala red carpet.
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 2 May 2023
  • Hotel heiress and DJ Paris Hilton has welcomed an heir.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But Marianne Smyth, who was born in Maine, was not an Irish heiress, and there was no fortune.
    Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Earlier this month, the heiress shared footage of precious time with her two children.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Kroenke is married to Ann Walton Kroenke, an heiress to the Walmart fortune.
    USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Hot, heiress and reality TV maven Paris Hilton is getting busy in the kitchen.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The minister’s wife, Frances Hall, was a blue-blood heiress with ties to the Johnson & Johnson dynasty.
    Time, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the heiress is stranded in the middle of the ocean, having embarked for one last ride back to Taormina via Quentin's yacht.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The concept is straightforward: A man and a woman attempt to scam a heiress out of her vast fortune.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Dating coach Alex mentors Albert who hopes to win the heart of a beautiful heiress.
    Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The 71-year-old heiress was for many years the world’s wealthiest woman, a position now occupied by Alice Walton.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 28 Oct. 2024
  • In Monkey Hill, an heiress accused of a white-collar crime hides away with her husband at a luxury resort in an Indian holy city.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024

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