How to Use princely in a Sentence

princely

adjective

• Prince George wore the most adorable princely coat and knee socks.
  — Leah Chernikoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Dec. 2016
• John knew what life and work were like for a man who had had, and lost, one of the princely jobs of the town.
  — Deborah Orr, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2020
• With Marshall Tucker and Wet Willie, for the princely sum of $4.50.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Customers paid the then-princely sum of $3 a pair (about 55 bucks in today’s moolah).
  — Tony Long, WIRED, 20 May 2011
• The most expensive selections on the menu are the beers, served in green plastic cups for the princely sum of $5.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• Once the capital of the princely state of Mewar, Udaipur has a dreamy setting along Lake Pichola.
  — Tanvi Chheda, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2021
• And if the ball bounces their way — holy Al-a-swish-us! — the saint who gave up a princely court could, at long last, be crowned king of the basketball court.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2021
• The team analyzed grave goods found in a princely tomb in the La Almoloya site, in what is now Murcia.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 10 Mar. 2021
• And a Ukrainian oligarch who hired Hunter at a princely sum to do nothing much.
  — David Von Drehle, Twin Cities, 8 Oct. 2019
• Fox Searchlight snapped it up for nearly $5 million, a princely sum at the time.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Twin Cities, 19 June 2019
• To the west—teasingly close—are the lush lowlands of the Philistine city-states, with their seaside trade routes and their princely homes.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
• The scientists believe the two tombs paint a picture of princely wealth and status.
  — Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019
• That’s how the son of a policeman from Wallhausen, Germany, earned the princely title.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2022
• The long, westward-flowing stretch in the north lies in the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and both new countries wanted all of that.
  — Brendan Hoffman, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• The Hall, currently living in Brooklyn, scored a ticket for the XU game, and two more tomorrow night, for the princely sum of $6 and change.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2022
• The abstainer from wealth, who hid in the toilet to avoid the company of princely visitors.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2017
• But after the couple welcomed a boy, betters banked on princely names like Albert and Arthur (the top favorites).
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2018
• Barcelona, a billion dollars in debt, must build a squad to meet its princely ambitions on a pauper’s budget.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• A full year’s subscription cost the princely sum of 75 cents, including shipping and handling.
  — John Horgan, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
• Few rail experiences can compare with the Palace on Wheels, which rolls across the former princely states of northern India.
  — Kate Springer, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
• Cézannes and Picassos galore—but the estate was valued at $6.8 million, then a princely sum.
  — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
• Vanquished local rulers, if lucky, might be granted a princely death, sewn into a sack and then trampled by horses.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• For Aramco’s $75bn payout to match this would imply a valuation of $1.2trn or so, well short of the original princely sum.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Her brooch and earrings are being sold by a European princely family who bought them at auction in 2009, the auction house said.
  — Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
• That didn’t exactly leave a princely sum for the interiors; budgets for the kind of projects Mr. Salasky usually works on can quickly run north of $1,000 per square foot.
  — Pilar Viladas, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• Once-powerful clerics and princely challengers have been squashed.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Residency rights were introduced in 1927 by Kashmir’s Hindu king, Hari Singh, to stop the influx of outsiders in the former princely state.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2020
• Lawrence Brownlee is celebrated for his portrayals of the princely heroes and love-smitten lords of bel canto.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• And then there was that princely posture, the graceful pivots and charged pauses that gave second thoughts and moments of silence a kinetic emphasis.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 1 Feb. 2017
• Portland has settled nicely into summer, with Sunday’s sunny skies offering a glimpse of the princely week ahead.
  — oregonlive.com, 28 July 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024