How to Use oligarch in a Sentence

oligarch

noun

• Tot up the worth of every oligarch and divide the sum by 2.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• And Zac was just a London kid, posing as the son of an oligarch.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The Putin era has presented the watching world with the figure of the oligarch.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• And there have been no new recordings of oligarchs grousing about the war.
  — Mikhail Zygar, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2024
• This isn’t the first time the celebrity oligarch has waded into the health care space.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2021
• The young oligarch was at the absolute height of his powers.
  — Eamon Javers, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
• The oligarch will face an asset freeze and a travel ban across the bloc, diplomats said.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
• The oligarch was first put under sanctions by the United States in 2018.
  — Annabelle Timsit and Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2022
• The Biden campaign, for its part, said that no such meeting between him and the oligarch took place.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• He is being set up to fail by the team’s new owner to spite her oligarch ex-husband.
  — John Avlon, CNN, 22 July 2021
• Berezovsky, one of Russia’s first and best-known oligarchs, bought the chateau in the 1990s, paving the way for an influx of his wealthy countrymen to the area.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• No Russian oligarch would be caught dead in a thirty-five-foot yacht, even with the sanctions.
  — Anand Giridharadas, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
• France has seized a 280-foot super-yacht owned by a Russian oligarch.
  — Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
• The 62-year-old Prigozhin is a Russian oligarch who emerged from the same wealthy and powerful circles as Putin.
  — Kim Bellware, Tobi Raji, Tamia Fowlkes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
• And a Ukrainian oligarch who hired Hunter at a princely sum to do nothing much.
  — David Von Drehle, Twin Cities, 8 Oct. 2019
• Serebrennikov does not mince words in his defense of the oligarch.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 May 2022
• The grouse here are at least spared the ignominy of being shot out of the sky by an oligarch—or David Beckham—dressed in spotless tweed.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
• So one afternoon in the fall of 2015, Kostya brought me to meet Viktor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch.
  — Sam Patten, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
• Biden’s farewell address warned of the danger of the influence of the nation’s tech CEOs and compared them to oligarchs.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Jan. 2025
• The system, in other words, is working—for oligarchs like Elon Musk.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
• Amy is a bodyguard, works with billionaires and oligarchs, always on the other side of the world.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
• The Atlantic Council looks at Russian oligarchs amid the Ukraine war for a 2 p.m. hybrid event.
  — Brad Dress, The Hill, 7 Jan. 2025
• Pitt has filed a lawsuit against Jolie for selling her stake in a French vineyard the two co-owned to a Russian oligarch.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2022
• To date, few Russian oligarchs have shown much appetite for standing up to Putin.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 July 2023
• In 2014, the oligarch tried to get his money back, suing Manafort and his partners.
  — Rachel Weiner, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
• During a private lakefront stroll, the oligarch offered him a seat on the board alongside Mr. Archer.
  — Katie Benner, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• The same group released a video showing a billion-dollar palace that Mr. Putin’s oligarch friends are said to have built for him.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
• Smith despised cheater aristocrats and oligarchs, by the way.
  — WIRED, 6 July 2023
• Who doesn’t want to stop Russian oligarchs and drug lords from laundering money in the U.S.?
  — Amber Gunn, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• Some bureaucrats and oligarchs scrambled to leave Russia or depart from Moscow in the midst of the chaos.
  — Time, 30 June 2023

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025