earl

Example Sentences

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Once, it is said, an earl stormed into Holbein’s London workshop demanding that the artist paint his portrait at once.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Viewers eventually learn Sophie’s servitude is forced after her parentage is revealed — she’s the illegitimate daughter of an earl.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

But the longed-for comeuppance of the brutish earl is as much an attraction to the series as Ms. Peckham.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

He inherited it following his father's death in 2015, and began to think more deeply about what it meant to be an earl.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025

Back in the study after dinner, I drew my chair close to the earl.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine