heiress

Example Sentences

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“It is your house,” the hotel heiress said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 24, 2026

It has held a position in the Garnier and Maybelline owner since 1974, when it bought in at the request of L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt to help stop the French government from nationalizing the company.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

The roughly 19,000-square-foot house, designed for an oil-and-banking heiress and her husband, is the most expensive for sale in Fort Worth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

If she was not the heiress now, she would be soon, what with her clues, Angela's clues, Turtle's clues, Denton's clues, and the clues of Mr. Hoo's obedient son.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin