How to Use billionaire in a Sentence

billionaire

noun
  • But the billionaire seems to have soured on the company.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2024
  • David Booth, a billionaire from Austin, is funding a chunk of it.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 July 2023
  • Even in a place that’s used to the way billionaires behave, it’s raised some eyebrows.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Bill Gates is not engaged to Paula Hurd, a rep for the billionaire confirms.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
  • Cops always can tell when a billionaire is behind the wheel.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Case in point: Joe Lewis, 86-year-old British billionaire, just couldn’t help himself.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The Empire State has lost 10 billionaires in the past four years, and those moves have hurt New York's bottom line for tax revenue.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Now, the billionaire who purchased the franchise ahead of the 2021 season hopes to build attractions around the team's home ballpark in Queens.
    Chantz Martin, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Magazine that giving away the bulk of his fortune has long been the billionaire’s plan.
    Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • Here are the 10 billionaires living in Kansas and Missouri.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Main Street: When a billionaire becomes a dissident, the takeover of Hong Kong is complete.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Even titans of industry aren’t immune to peer pressure—the desire to keep up with the billionaire next door.
    Frederick Kaufman, Fortune, 30 July 2023
  • The billionaire has suffered multiple legal woes over the past two years.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In June, the two Big Tech billionaires seemingly agreed to participate in a cage fight.
    Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But, billionaires don’t get that way resting on their laurels.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Joe Lewis, the billionaire owner of the soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, may one day be leaving the soccer pitch for a prison cell.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 July 2023
  • And if Crudup plays Cory as a robot programmed to be a media mogul, Hamm counters him well as a robot programmed to be a billionaire.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The five billionaires‘ total wealth combines to about $869 billion.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Buffett, who according to Forbes achieved billionaire status this year, died Friday at the age of 76.
    Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Dalio is billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the biggest hedge fund in the entire world.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 25 May 2023
  • The scandals have only increased since the tech mogul and billionaire magnate purchased Twitter in 2022.
    Justin Klawans, theweek, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Forbes also estimates that Hendricks is the 109th-richest billionaire in the world.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2023
  • Because the last thing this planet needs is billionaires spewing greenhouse gases to get to their palatial beach homes.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • The billionaire is already in the process of passing on that wealth to his former gardener and has hired a legal team to take him through the process, Tribune de Genève reported.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The novel introduces a young chef at the end of the world who sacrifices everything to cook for a secretive billionaire.
    Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Bezos proposed to Sánchez while the two were vacationing on the billionaire’s $500 million yacht.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Now the billionaire has waded into the murky world of right-wing European politics to discuss both.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The French billionaire lost his spot as world’s richest person on that ranking as yesterday (May 31), with Musk reclaiming the top spot.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 1 June 2023
  • Old North Wharf itself has become the playground of a bunch of other Nantucket billionaires.
    William Cohan, Town & Country, 7 June 2023
  • The women who think billionaires suck, but female billionaire suck less?
    Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023

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