gilded

Example Sentences

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Kate sat near the stage in a chipped, gilded plaster box that once enshrined New York society’s elite.

From Literature

But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.

From The Wall Street Journal

We crossed the grounds, entered the castle doors, now gilded gold, marched up a grand golden staircase, and down a long corridor to a large golden door with gold handles.

From Literature

As an aide hovers, reminding Mr. Walesa that he must depart soon for his next appointment, I ask about a gilded statuette that sits on a table next to him.

From The Wall Street Journal

The chumminess among some of the gilded people in Epstein’s circle has landed at an acutely populist moment.

From The Wall Street Journal