How to Use magnate in a Sentence

magnate

noun

• The tech magnate continued to fume about the state law last week.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
• The winter hasn't been so kind to the Houston furniture magnate.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 23 Jan. 2023
• But no magnate besides Gates has met one-on-one with the president.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 16 June 2023
• One Russian magnate’s dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events that will take the world to the brink of chaos.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
• The bet didn’t pay off for the Houston furniture magnate, but that hasn’t forced him to sever ties with D-FW teams.
  — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
• His work caught the eye of a local real estate magnate, John Portman, who hired him.
  — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• The Bellagio, opened by casino magnate Steve Wynn, was designed to change all that.
  — Brett Martin, Bon Appétit, 8 Nov. 2023
• Built by chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. in the late 1920s, the Biltmore has hosted presidents and movie stars.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024
• Customers who caught onto the magnate’s whereabouts began to crowd shopping malls to get a glimpse of him.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 June 2023
• The billionaire mining magnate owns a vast portfolio of real estate and yachts and a stake in the Bank of Cyprus.
  — Stacy Permanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• In fact, the shoe magnate’s hotel is an entirely new, ground-up design.
  — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2024
• The Bengals lost, of course, and the result capped off a run of bad beats that saw the furniture magnate lose more than $15 million on sports gambling in a five-week stint.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 7 Sep. 2022
• The Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim, one of the richest men in the world, is another client.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2022
• Scores of Tri-Stars were commissioned by royals and oil magnates, but those vehicles were rarely kept stock.
  — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2024
• The daughter of a confectionary magnate, Akie grew up in a wealthy and privileged family in Tokyo.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 11 July 2022
• The company boasts a $462 billion market cap, and the man behind the curtain is French business magnate Arnault.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
• The Mediterranean-style home was built in 1906 for Chicago meatpacking magnate Edward Swift.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
• The magnate, which Lefcourt launched with her then-husband in 2000, has been a central force behind the natural wine movement.
  — Eliza Dumais, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2023
• The team’s owner, oil and gas magnate Terry Pegula, has a net worth of $6.7 billion, according to Forbes.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• Skoch, a steel magnate, is one of the wealthiest men in Russia’s Duma, or parliament.
  — Larry Neumeister, ajc, 8 Aug. 2022
• The scandals have only increased since the tech mogul and billionaire magnate purchased Twitter in 2022.
  — Justin Klawans, theweek, 16 Jan. 2024
• His mother, the former Katherine Goldsmith, was a homemaker and the daughter of a textile magnate.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• The property was once part of the Bonnie Brae estate owned by a Chicago lumberyard magnate.
  — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• The magnate’s rise in the polls, during the 2016 nominating contest, befuddled him.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• The Eastern Shore widow of a chicken magnate plans to sell an emerald from a 400-year-old Spanish shipwreck to stop the trafficking of Ukrainian refugees.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2022
• The real-estate magnate was also a partner in George Clooney's Casamigos tequila brand before it was sold in 2017.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
• Real-life magnates like Carnegie and Frick weren’t half as sympathetic as George Russell.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
• Grocery store magnate Jeff Brown, whose campaign spent $3.1 million on ads for his primary race (more than all but Domb), is poised to finish fifth.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 17 May 2023
• Highland Park was developed in the early 1900s by real-estate magnate John S. Armstrong and his sons-in-law.
  — Jessica Flint, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2022
• At the time, the local property magnate shelled out a cool $20 million for the shingle-style colonial, Mansion Global reported.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024