How to Use tycoon in a Sentence

tycoon

noun

• That tycoon is Robert Tsao, the founder of a microchip-maker.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Sep. 2022
• In May, for instance, the tycoon’s wealth plunged $11.2 billion in a day as the company’s share price took a hit.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
• Even when the boy's captors sliced off one of his ears and mailed it to a Rome newspaper, the oil tycoon was unmoved.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
• Indeed, the Hong Kong tycoon has been known to collect across a range of categories.
  — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2023
• His opponents tried to slow him down by tarring him as an out-of-touch tycoon.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• The New York hedge fund tycoon, who was born in Hungary, is worth $6.7 billion, according to Forbes.
  — Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2022
• The grandson of a billionaire oil tycoon, Davis is an heir to a massive fortune.
  — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
• The story made Musk sound like a typical tycoon living in the lap of luxury.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• Musk was likely next on the list, the InfoWars host warned, since the tycoon had the government bureaucracy scared.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• Twitter purchase seems on track to close by the end of this week, after banks started sending $13 billion in cash to back the tycoon’s takeover.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022
• The sequel, which added Radcliffe as a deranged tech tycoon, was weaker.
  — Rachel Simon, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2022
• Corruption, in the justices’ eyes, is when a railroad tycoon hands a politician a burlap sack with a big dollar sign on it.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• Her beau, William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper tycoon, bought the building just before the stock-market crash.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 17 Nov. 2023
• Peter and Lindsay, the daughter of an oil tycoon, were seen watching the races together from the royal box and were even joined by Princess Anne.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
• Cox, who played the role of media tycoon Logan Roy, looked dapper in a blue button-down shirt and navy pants that featured a bold stripe of lighter blue on each side.
  — Ashley Paige, Peoplemag, 25 June 2023
• Fallen crypto tycoon Do Kwon was ready to get out of Montenegro.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2023
• Crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t lose a $16-billion fortune.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Gad Saad, who shares the tycoon’s politics and regularly interacts with him, was one of many that leapt to Musk’s aid.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
• Jimmy’s father had been very rich — a shipping tycoon, by some accounts.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Sep. 2023
• The media-shy tycoon did not respond to an interview request.
  — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
• The tycoon has been investigated for corruption in the past.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• The tycoon is also looking to private equity investors to join in the takeover — and two of them reportedly just bailed.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2022
• Shan is one of the few private equity mavens in Hong Kong, where real estate tycoons and their families dot the city’s rich list, to have joined the three-comma club.
  — Laura Smythe, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Now the 70-year-old tycoon, who was knighted in his home country but isn’t as well known outside of Europe, is making a deeper push into the U.S. market.
  — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
• Xi is said to have spoken bitterly of watching Boris Yeltsin contend with Russian tycoons in the nineteen-nineties.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Philippine fast food-to-property tycoon Edgar Sia II has a grand ambition.
  — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• Balmer, a Detroit native, is a business tycoon and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2022
• But an aborted June 24 mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary tycoon, seems to have changed the calculation for the Russian leader.
  — Paul Sonne, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
• Tech tycoons Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are also selling shares in their companies this year.
  — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
• Miami wants to attract even more out-of-state workers and wealthy newcomers like hedge fund tycoon Ken Griffin.
  — Michael Smith, Fortune, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024