Examples of countess in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The château—once the summerhouse of the countess du Barry, the last mistress of King Louis XV—is a stone’s throw from the former horse stables and staff quarters that now house Le Doyenné. — WSJ, 18 June 2022 In 2001, its owner, an Italian countess, fell to her death from the steep hill leading to the sea, her body washing up in France. — New York Times, 1 June 2022 Boras sees each of Christie's characters in this story, from a glamorous princess and a beautiful countess to a brusque businessman and a mousy missionary, as a diamond. — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2022 Thousands were evicted by the countess over the course of the Clearances. — Cathleen O'grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022 Smith has portrayed the dowager countess, Violet Crawley, a character who has become best known for her devastating zingers and obsession with maintaining tradition at Downton. — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 May 2022 Rhodes was born Hadassah Itzkowitz in a shtetl 50 miles outside Kyiv, not a place of opportunity but for a Russian countess who provided educational opportunities for some of the children. — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 24 Mar. 2022 The countess was an amateur naturalist and took a particular interest in Rhodes. — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 24 Mar. 2022 Even Maggie Smith's dowager countess would have good things to say about them. — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2022 See More

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