How to Use crown prince in a Sentence

crown prince

noun
  • He's been heralded as the crown prince of jazz.
  • The Saudis said that the team acted on its own and that the crown prince was not involved.
    NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is the head of that fund.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
  • Karl’s father, Otto, was the last crown prince, born in 1912.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • And when the Saudi crown prince came to Houston, Steuart’s firm set up his safe house.
    Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Biden met with the Saudi crown prince in July as gas prices in the US reached record highs.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The crown prince, needless to say, agrees that his reforms are a boon for his country.
    oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The kingdom denied any involvement of the crown prince.
    Rory Jones, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2021
  • The film opens with the Chola crown prince Aditha Karikalan (Vikram) and his army being victorious on the field.
    Shalini Dore, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The exchange may help bolster the crown prince's mediating role in the Ukraine war.
    Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • At the 1960 Rome Games, the then crown prince was part of the gold medal-winning team in three-person Dragon Class sailing.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Biden said the purpose of his trip was not to meet with the crown prince but to position the United States in the region for the future.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022
  • But the Saudi crown prince’s penchant for moonshots isn’t just a matter of words.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2023
  • Its statement did not mention the crown prince’s own alleged role.
    Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But as president, Biden landed in Riyadh in 2022 and warmly fist-bumped the young crown prince.
    Byvivienne Walt, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The meeting with Biden could bestow greater legitimacy on the crown prince’s plans and his path to the throne.
    Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2022
  • Due to the pandemic, his accession to crown prince and as next in line to the throne took place privately in 2020, per the BBC.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But even the prospect of a visit by Mr. Biden with the Saudi crown prince has earned the president criticism.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 14 June 2022
  • Biden and the crown prince will continue their meeting after the king departs.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 15 July 2022
  • As crown prince, the future king competed in sailing at the 1960 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal for Greece in the Dragon class.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The crown prince has been heavily involved in the construction of the new city in Saudi Arabia named Neom.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Khashoggi’s killing could not have happened without the crown prince’s knowledge.
    Hyder Abbasi, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The Saudi crown prince even had a phone call with the president of Iran, the kingdom’s longtime rival and Hamas’s chief backer.
    Ghaith Al-Omari, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Fast forward three years, to President Biden setting out for his own meeting with the crown prince.
    Andy Meek, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • Biden has so far opted instead to speak directly with King Salman, the crown prince’s father.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 6 June 2022
  • Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is 36 years old and has led his country for almost five years.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Billboard‘s pop-punk crown prince also shared details of making his new album, which dropped March 25.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Despite the crackdown, the crown prince has also been credited with reforms.
    Chris Megerian, ajc, 11 July 2022
  • That’s a lot worse than simply allowing the crown prince to pay outrageous salaries to a bunch of soccer players.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The former crown prince of Abu Dhabi had been running the day-to-day affairs of the country during his brother’s prolonged illness.
    CNN, 16 May 2022

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