How to Use baroness in a Sentence

baroness

noun
  • The baroness thanked him for his kindness.
    — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Ever wanted to be a baron or a baroness?
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2025
  • After a split in the ménage à trois, the baroness and one of her partners vanished.
    — Allison Amend, New York Times, 23 June 2017
  • The baroness, who went blind, died in a Bamberg monastery in 1796.
    — Fox News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The airship gondola further serves as the baroness’s dressing room.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Marianne Faithfull's father was once a spy; her mother a pence-less baroness.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Her father worked in British intelligence, her mother a baroness.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Redford plays Denys, a big game hunter in Out of Africa, while Streep plays Karen, a baroness.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The baroness discussed with him internal family issues and her health problems.
    — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The baroness is determined to build a hotel on the island, which a century ago might as well be like building a hotel on the moon.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Diana counted Monckton, now a baroness, among her closest friends and was godmother to one of her daughters.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Other cast members include a triple baroness and the son of a Nigerian chief, but Tyler views his role on the show differently.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2018
  • If your mind immediately goes to the Bridgerton baronesses, there was in fact a collab done in 2021.
    — Brie Schwartz, Glamour, 23 July 2024
  • The Queen can choose from five titles for a man -- duke, marquess, earl, viscount or baron -- and for a woman -- duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness.
    — Angela Dewan, CNN, 19 May 2018
  • The baroness’ charity ball at her Hellman Hall home is where Cruella finally confronts her mother.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 29 May 2021
  • Ferdinand Marcos was supposed to buy it, but was deposed before a sale was finalized; a baroness briefly had the sultan of Brunei intrigued.
    — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • The baroness employed 90 terrified gardeners who were charged with maintaining its perfection.
    — Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Epstein and the baroness continued corresponding into 2019, the records show.
    — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Ultimately, Lockhart gets drawn into a morbid tale about the spa’s history, involving a mad baron, a baroness, his sister and the villagers who burned the place to the ground.
    — Katie Walsh, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2017
  • Nobody is as extraneous this time around, including a great Hope Davis as an oil baroness with a keen interest in both Della and Ham.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Stone plays the fashionista Estrella, a young girl with a flair for design who teams up with a pair of fellow mischief-makers and sets her sights on taking down a baroness (Thompson).
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
  • Streep starred as a Danish baroness who falls in love with a big-game hunter, played by Redford, while running a coffee plantation in colonial Kenya in the epic romantic drama.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
  • Charlotte du Rietz, a worldly Swedish baroness, also chose to be depicted as Diana, dressed in a leopard-pelt robe and a floral choker, bearing a spear.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The elaborate setups waned in the 19th century, and the dogs neared extinction during World War II, before a baroness set out to bring them back.
    — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The baroness gave Epstein interior design tips and picked out antique furniture and vases worth more than $500,000 for the financier to buy for his properties.
    — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In the 1930s, two German families and a baroness moved to Floreana, a barely populated island in the Galápagos.
    — airmail.news, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Also in 2015, then prime minister David Cameron appointed her as a government adviser and a Conservative baroness.
    — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Scotland, who was made a baroness, is also secretary-general of the Commonwealth, an organization of more than 50 nations that were previously part of the British Empire.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022

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