How to Use heiress in a Sentence
heiress
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Can its heiress-turned-leader make the brand fast, cheap, and green?
—Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
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In the book, our man Fletch is engaged to an heiress from Italy.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
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The endeavor was to be paid for by the steel heiress Amy Phipps Guest.
—New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
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Reum, 42, said on Thursday's episode of the heiress's I Am Paris podcast.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
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Each year, the heiress would only be forced to withdraw a small amount.
—Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 26 July 2019
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The endeavor was to be paid for by steel heiress Amy Phipps Guest.
—Arkansas Online, 13 Feb. 2022
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Her wealthy aunt had fought the heiress’s mother for custody and won.
—Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
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By the end the Wall Street man is ruined and the journalist has both a Pulitzer Prize and an heiress wife.
—Janan Ganesh, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2017
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His mother, who died in 2011, was the heiress to a plastics fortune.
—Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 21 June 2018
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His first two wives were the heiress Minnie Cushing and the model Cheryl Tiegs.
—Stacey Stowe, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
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If Swiatek is the queen of clay then Pegula is the hard court heiress this summer.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
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He’ll have upped and run away With a social climbing heiress from New York!
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
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The Hilton heiress tied the knot with Reum in November, and then set off for a honeymoon around the globe.
—Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
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The heiress added that having a good sense of style all comes down to how your put items together.
—Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
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But that all changes in this next installment, which is told from the perspective of the heiress whom the knight served.
—The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
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But Leslie said at the ceremony last Friday that the young heiress had a plan.
—Joe Hotchkiss, ajc, 29 May 2021
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Valentine, 65, is an heiress to the Anheuser-Busch fortune.
—Jim Salter, ajc, 3 Aug. 2022
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In the early 2000s, the Seagram liquor fortune heiress joined Raniere’s group in upstate New York.
—Lola Méndez, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2020
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The former Gucci heiress might not be thrilled by the film, but the rest of the world can't wait to see why Gaga is serving snowslope chic.
—Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 15 Mar. 2021
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The heiress, who is in her mid-70s, has donated about $1.7 million to Ohio House members over the past five years.
—Chrissie Thompson, Cincinnati.com, 9 June 2018
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Paris Hilton, the American heiress, has arrived on the Met Gala red carpet.
—Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 2 May 2023
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Funding comes from the likes of Radiohead, a rock band, and Aileen Getty, an oil heiress.
—The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
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The six-part podcast series unravels the twisted tale of Stover, his ex-wife, the heiress, and the bodyguard.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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The six-part podcast series unravels the twisted tale of Stover, his ex-wife, the heiress, and the bodyguard.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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McCain was an oil heiress who was proud of her husband and sons’ Navy careers.
—Halley Bondy, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2020
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It was owned by Louisa Carpenter, the Woolworth heiress.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
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Hotel heiress and DJ Paris Hilton has welcomed an heir.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
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The L'Oreal cosmetics heiress and the world's richest woman. Sept. 20.
—Bernard McGhee, sacbee, 26 Dec. 2017
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One of the main features that drew in the heiress and her husband happened to be the neighborhood, the release noted.
—Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2025
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On Wednesday, June 25, the 44-year-old heiress shared a carousel of photographs from her recent vacation to the Mediterranean island of Sardinia.
—Clare Fisher, People.com, 26 June 2025
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