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
• 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
• Serebrennikov does not mince words in his defense of the oligarch.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 May 2022
• Amy is a bodyguard, works with billionaires and oligarchs, always on the other side of the world.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Prigozhin, by then an oligarch of middling rank, saw an opening.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• But officials said the Kremlin has shown no interest in any deal that would free the oligarch.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
• The list of African oligarchs and politicians who have found safe haven in Dubai is a veritable rogues gallery of the continent.
  — Matthew T. Page, TIME, 10 May 2024
• To take ownership of an oligarch’s yacht, governments have to show that the property was part of a crime.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2022
• Now a wealthy oligarch, the close Putin ally previously served nine years in prison for robbery in his 20s.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2022
• An oligarch is defined as possessing at least three of these.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• The goal is to take down the business people who are helping to fund the war and bar wealthy oligarchs from accessing goods and services in the West, the officials said.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
• In the film, a member of the local Georgian community is murdered, mistaken for his boss, a Russian oligarch.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
• Russian oligarchs and weapons dealers shuttle tether abroad to buy property and pay suppliers for sanctioned goods. ...
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024