grandee|grandees in English

noun

[gran·dee || græn'dɪː]

Spanish nobleman, Spanish aristocrat

Use "grandee|grandees" in a sentence

1. The grandees of sport and theatre are distressed.

2. Is corruption condoned by powerful grandees in government and business?

3. The son of a postal clerk, he could not be considered a grandee.

4. The highest- ranking member of the Spanish aristocracy is the grandee.

5. And corruption is condoned by powerful grandees in government and business.

6. Yesterday it also emerged that another City grandee had joined the team.

7. Nobleman, lord, peer, noble, aristocrat, patrician, grandee Yes, our friend the Baron has his problems

8. This is doubtful: the electorate, being composed of ordinary people, is less impressionable than Tory grandees.

9. Children of an Infante or Infanta of Spain "shall have the consideration of Spanish Grandees", and the address of "Your Excellency".

10. That fateful night in the city of Babylon, Belshazzar held a banquet with a thousand of his grandees.

11. "I am incredibly surprised, " confides one Tory grandee, "by the degree to which he takes this stuff seriously."

12. He is a former defence secretary of the United States and a grandee of the Democratic Party.

13. Many decades later, King Belshazzar holds a big feast for his grandees and disrespectfully uses vessels that were taken from Jehovah’s temple.

14. Much of his downfall came from an over-zealous and extravagant interpretation of his role and duties as a landowner and grandee.

15. When the Moon is joined to Saturn in an Angle,[Sentencedict.com] the Native though a grandee will be reduced to poverty.

16. Du Cann's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire.

17. On the night of Cyrus’ surprise attack, Babylonian King Belshazzar was feasting with “a thousand of his grandees” when a hand miraculously appeared.

18. “As regards Belshazzar the king, he made a big feast for a thousand of his grandees, and in front of the thousand he was drinking wine.”

19. If you visit Taipei , whatever for business trip or just travel , Grandee Taipei Hotel near Shilin night market and MRT Jiantan Station is a good choice for staying.

20. When Belshazzar saw that his trust in these religionists had been in vain, he became still more frightened, his complexion grew paler, and even his grandees were “perplexed.”

21. “AS REGARDS Belshazzar the king,” wrote the prophet Daniel, “he made a big feast for a thousand of his grandees, and in front of the thousand he was drinking wine.”

22. ‘the haughty contempt of a grandee sneering at the Canaille’ ‘Brummell did the reverse, reinforcing exclusivism in the coming age of industry, teaching the upper classes to rely on cut to distinguish themselves from the Canaille.’

23. (Daniel 5:10-12) We can feel the hush that permeated the banqueting room as Daniel, in compliance with the request of King Belshazzar, proceeded to interpret those mystifying words to the emperor of the third world power of Bible history and his grandees.

24. In August 2008, Doña Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia and three-time Grandee of Spain (branded the Red Duchess for her socialist activism), became the highest ranking Spanish noble to marry in an articulo mortis (deathbed) wedding to longtime companion Liliana Maria Dahlmann, now the Dowager Duchess of Medina Sidonia by right of her late wife.

25. T HE Bashaws, and other Grandees, as they passed by that Place in their return from Court, and knew, by its Trappings, that it was the Chiaux ’s Horse, eating his Hay under the Plane-Tree, they demanded the Reason, why he was not shut up in a Stable, as heretofore? He readily told them all the Matter; that as he shut us up, so he and his Horse were shut out, so that the one could not get