How To Use grandee In A Sentence
- She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Kamar al-Zaman, son of King Shahriman, went to the Hammam, his father in his joy at this event freed the prisoners, and presented splendid dresses to his grandees and bestowed large alm-gifts upon the poor and bade decorate the city seven days. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
- The 44-year-old leader has reportedly been taking soundings from party grandees over his strategy for the election and the referendum on the European constitution, which is likely to follow soon afterwards.
- Do not miss the memorials to local grandees. Times, Sunday Times
- He insisted two years ago that he would not follow Labour grandees in accepting a peerage. Times, Sunday Times
- The Tory college could consist of MPs, grassroots grandees consisting of constituency chairs and council leaders, and finally members.
- Passed over for court painter to George III, Reynolds turned to the King's opponents, the Whig grandees and the group that surrounded the Prince of Wales.
- He was degraded from the grandeeship and exiled to the Philippines.
- Four years after his birth in Dunfermline, in 1600, it was thought a good idea to crown the boy King of Scots, but the Scots grandees objected.
- Often their best chance of talking to the grandees hobnobbing yards away is to call head offices back home. Times, Sunday Times
