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
In the brave new world of college football, blue blood means nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Along those lines, Cronin said, he’d rather be a big boy — a team with the most money — than a blue blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
State what you can in relation to blue blood.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
