Esquire

Example Sentences

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Among his recommendations, Rees-Mogg asks that “all non-titled males” are given the abbreviation Esq., for esquire, after their name.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2019

OK, esquire, but I go back to what I was taught on the first day of law school: 1.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2018

One of the last Senators to be born an esquire, Burnet Rhett Maybank, 55, died last week of a heart attack.

From Time Magazine Archive

In telescopic order he was put through the degrees of page, esquire and knight.

From Time Magazine Archive

But at that very moment a trumpet sounded, and a man came summoning him, the king’s esquire, to wait at the king’s board.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien