Examples of courtier in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web London was a tough market to crack, but the estate of the lady’s courtier-husband was one of many in the countryside — this one, 100 miles north in Norfolk county. — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021 To our eyes, the African prince is more beautiful in his isolation than the fancy courtier in his reflected white glory. . . . — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2021 His staggeringly beautiful painting of a young woman, wife of a London courtier, sits dead ahead on the entry wall. — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021 The most imposing sculpture is a 17th-century metal plaque showing the figure of a royal courtier in high relief. — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021 The courtier stands frontally, feet planted firmly yet miraculously on thin air. — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021 Four days after Prince Philip’s death, the queen attended a retirement ceremony for a royal courtier who had been instrumental in planning her husband’s funeral. — Max Colchester, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021 As Blanding relates, McCarthy’s approach to this vexing question centers on Elizabethan courtier and famed Plutarch translator Sir Thomas North. — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2021 One of the earliest Lowes to have survived, a short flapper-style dress from 1926, is the costume for a Gasparilla courtier that might have come from les petites mains of Lesage. — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021 See More

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