Gilded Age
Example Sentences
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"This is the first opportunity where it's clear I have an opening where I will finish The Gilded Age in mid-August, and go into rehearsal for Hay Fever a few days later," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Ours is a history in which New York robber barons used the promise of belonging to splinter the poor into factions and manipulate them into fighting among themselves during the Gilded Age.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2026
Government and private money are flowing in quantities that would make a Gilded Age robber baron blush.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025
Most of the exhibited objects are Japanese, indicating the coincidence between Cincinnati’s Gilded Age wealth and japonisme, the late-19th-century Western fad for Japanese culture.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
To some, the multimillion-dollar party that Kozlowski gave on Sardinia to celebrate his wife’s birthday—replete with a vodka-spewing ice sculpture fashioned after Michelangelo’s David—was a modern echo of the lavish celebrations of the Gilded Age.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
