Examples of heiress in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Anna Sorokin — the fake German heiress who swindled thousands of dollars from friends, hotels, banks and other businesses — joined a class-action lawsuit accusing jailers of wrongfully denying Covid vaccines to inmates. — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2022 In the film's most famous scene, Grace Kelly, playing an American heiress, lures a former thief with the magnificent jewels around her throat. — Ian Malone, Vogue, 6 May 2022 His parents — Frederick, who had inherited a banking fortune, and Daisy, a shipping heiress — spent much of the year traveling to exotic locales with their only child. — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2022 That is true, but consider an extreme example of differing realities: A billionaire heiress forced into paying a new 20 percent tax on her annual income or unrealized gains will suffer precisely zero negative consequences to her lifestyle. — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2022 Crystal Clarke is given a lot to work with as Georgiana Lambe, an heiress and the only woman of color among the set. — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 21 Mar. 2022 In the show, Son played Yoon Se-ri, a fashionable heiress and businesswoman who unexpectedly drops into the life of Hyun's character, Ri Jeong Hyeok, a conscientious North Korean military officer and son of a high-ranking official. — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022 The 1978 version could hardly be called a triumph— John Guillermin’s direction was no more than workmanlike, and Lois Chiles seemed to go about in a trance state as a rich heiress at the center of the action. — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022 After all, what’s more American than an heiress pulling herself up by her designer bootstraps? — Meredith Haggerty, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2022 See More

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