duke
Example Sentences
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The continued disclosures about the former duke’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein have caused embarrassment to both the monarchy and Downing Street.
And in a 1778 painting of Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret, who was the illegitimate daughter of a duke, he poses her classically in costly black lace.
Rep. Wesley Hunt is likely headed to a runoff, while Democrats duke out their own primary.
Meanwhile, Abdulmejid and his family lived a glitzy Riviera life, attending dances, we are told, with “four or five kings and any number of princes, dukes and counts.”
Antony White KC, representing ANL, suggested to the court that Mail journalists could only have known about the duke's apparent comments about being in love with Davy if someone had told them.
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