How to Use baron in a Sentence

baron

noun
  • Find the button that opens up the floor to see the baron’s tomb.
    — Chao Deng, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Ever wanted to be a baron or a baroness?
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The fires burned most of Nob Hill where the railroad barons lived.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
  • She is later captured and finds love with the baron who led the onslaught.
    — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
  • His wife, known as Livy, was the sheltered daughter of a coal baron.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
  • That does not just mean the overweening clout of the tech titan or the oil baron.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Guise dismounted, drew his sword, and called on the baron to do likewise.
    — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Galleries and artists cozy up to celebrities and tech barons for much the same reason.
    — Mark Ellwood, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
  • No one doubts that the 150-year-old house, built by a lumber baron, needs work.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • So the stakes going forward remain high for all manner of booze barons.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The oil barons were still attending these auctions to bid on leases.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
  • And my bad guy was a coal baron, who was also the father of Kimble’s dead wife.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
  • Lick, who died in 1876, was a wealthy land baron and patron of the sciences.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Press barons can dial back the criticism of Trump and dial up the praise.
    — Felix Salmon, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The other coal baron is Jim Justice, who is one of the richest men in the state.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
  • But this one is so wrong that perhaps even Joe Manchin, a coal baron, realizes it.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 29 July 2022
  • Since then, Houston's economy has flourished first as a port and then as a nexus of oil barons.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
  • Past Lord Wardens include barons, earls, princes, and future kings.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 10 Feb. 2026
  • This was perhaps the greatest bifurcation of the labor force seen since the days of land barons.
    — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • In his view, the tech barons were not even on the right path to building their artificial Einstein.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Lagerbielke is a baron from a noble family in Sweden.
    — ABC News, 20 June 2026
  • Preparing an enormous baron of beef was a huge undertaking.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Following the baron’s death, the museum closed its doors in 2007.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Eventually, a lesser prince granted him the title of baron.
    — Amanda Rosa updated April 28, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • By the turn of the 20th century, Milwaukee became known as the city of beer barons.
    — Mike Pramik, USA TODAY, 6 June 2018
  • His new one tells the story of a young woman sent from the afterlife to guide a hateful oil baron through the process of dying — and what comes next.
    — Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But any future with David Ormsby Gore, the fifth baron of Harclech, wasn’t meant to be.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Greg Carr is perhaps the most committed of the eco-barons and Gorongosa the most ambitious project.
    — James Zug, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Back-the-Clock theme that recognizes the Barons during the 1950s.
    — Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 30 May 2017
  • After all, Log Haven was built by a steel baron in 1920 as an anniversary gift for his wife.
    — Heather May, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2020

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