How to Use millionaire in a Sentence

millionaire

noun
  • The book features a young man with plans to become a millionaire.
    Dana Brownlee, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • But the draw has made a millionaire of one lucky gas station owner.
    Alice Hearing, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • By the 1950s, there wasn’t one Vanderbilt who was even a millionaire.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Just throw the millionaires tax onto the growing list of grievances.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The report found that there were four times as many millionaires today as there were at the turn of the century.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There's an old adage that the best way to become a millionaire is to start an airline... as a billionaire.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 11 Feb. 2023
  • How many months and years of life would the average Idahoan give away to live a millionaire lifestyle?
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Some 85% of all audits, and just under half of millionaire audits, were done by mail, TRAC found.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The Fox News millionaire went on to describe his foolproof plan in case of such an incident.
    Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023
  • There have been signs of tensions between the army and the Wagner Group, led by millionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin.
    Andrew Meldrum, ajc, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But our guy died in 2006, free and a millionaire, and that broke our society forever.
    Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Sick of the shutout, a new plan emerged that same year to build the Metropolitan Opera House: a bigger, better space for this new class of millionaires.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The Maasai kept their land rights but usually stayed away during the few months when sheikhs and millionaires arrived.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Some saw her as a champion, others as a spoiled millionaire star.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Some countries shed more millionaires than others — the United States alone lost 1.8 million of them.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Uma Ghost centers on Wendy, a millionaire, rebel and orphan who is sent to live with a new family, where she is forced to sleep in the room of their late daughter Uma.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023
  • One likely answer: The fate of daring millionaires seems closer to us than that of people fleeing a war.
    Katharina Menne, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • That would mean Sting, already a millionaire many times over, has earned more than $28 million in royalties from the track since its release.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In this case, there’s a gay man with crutches and a millionaire of short stature mixed into the ensemble, both (rightly) treated as no big deal.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Every kid in Massachusetts will get a free lunch, paid for by proceeds from a new state tax on millionaires.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In 2015, millionaire Steve Siebold and his wife Dawn scooped up the charming abode to use as the headquarters for their consulting company.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Tucked behind me is the hotel’s pool, shrouded by millionaires, socialites, and media dancing to a band's rhythm, getting guests pumped for the night ahead.
    Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Naturally, his millionaire boss wants Richards locked in a lab to fuel his life forever, so Richards goes on the run.
    PCMAG, 18 Jan. 2023
  • This relentless pursuit of excellence propelled me from the brink of giving up to millionaire status by the age of 42.
    David Price, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Dating back to 1900, the castle was intended to be a summer retreat for millionaire hotelier George C. Boldt and his wife.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
  • First, funds should be reserved for the growers in most need, not millionaire operations.
    Stephen Robert Miller, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Even millennial millionaires rent because the cost of city living is so high.
    Hillary Hoffower, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Revenue from the tax on millionaires, now between $2 billion and $3 billion a year, provides about one-third of the state’s total mental health budget.
    Trân Nguyễn, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Thirty-year-olds were running the studios, and 20-year-olds were becoming millionaires.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 12 Mar. 2023
  • But for Struck, becoming a multi-millionaire before his 25th birthday was much more than that.
    Jaime Catmull, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023

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