blue blood
Example Sentences
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Before his senior year, he could become the centerpiece of a feverish bidding war between blue blood programs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.
From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026
No blue blood wants to fake excitement about schlepping to the Pop-Tart Bowl, no offense to those sentient Pop-Tarts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
North Carolina, the fellow blue blood that the Bruins will face Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden in the CBS Sports Classic, has won five of its six titles since 1982.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024
Was there any real blue blood in the place?
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon
