grandee

Example Sentences

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The prime minister wanted to send this Labour grandee to Washington.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Starmer has apologized for hiring the Labour Party grandee, and Mandelson has quit the House of Lords—the British Parliament’s upper chamber—amid a police investigation into whether he shared market-sensitive information with the financier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Ms. Cheever began to understand that his stories came at least partly from the tension between his private feelings of shame and the effort to maintain his respectability as a literary grandee and paterfamilias.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The Labour grandee, who served in multiple ministerial roles under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown before taking up a life peerage in the Lords, was considered to be one of the frontrunners for the position.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024

He dressed impeccably and had the manners of a grandee.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson