Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for country gentlemen
Noun
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As kobolds go, Heinzelmann was more harmless than most, going about his business protecting the castle from giants and dwarves and keeping the staff updated on faerie gossip, as well as protecting the chambermaids from unwelcome attentions from visiting noblemen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025 -
Hermès traces its history to 1837 as a harness workshop for European noblemen, and today, the company still has a healthy equestrian business.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Once an active port city, Newport is now a tourist haven for people who come to see the palatial summer houses of Astors, Vanderbilts, Wetmores, and other grandees of the Gilded Age.—
Calvin Tomkins,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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Suffice it to say, with credentials such as this, a charivari of fashion-week regulars, media, film and musical grandees and not a few New York and London tatterdemalions showed for the September 12 bacchanal on Church Street.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Programs spread more effectively when leaders hear about them from peers rather than from L&D.—
Lavinia Mehedintu,
Big Think,
11 Dec. 2025
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Rural working-age people, ages 25 to 64, are dying younger than their urban peers, and the gap is growing.—
Tim Slack,
Fortune,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Reading and writing were professional skills, the province of scribes employed by lords and kings.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 June 2026
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Ser Duncan the Tall, played by Peter Claffey, sits atop a horse as the lords of Westeros look down at him.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
10 June 2026
Noun
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Well, first of all, the idea that these three gentlemen that have very little background in terms of negotiations or the technical nature of nuclear negotiations going against a hardened Iranian team that's been doing this for decades.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
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Jeff Shi of Wolves, ladies and gentlemen.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
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