How to Use château in a Sentence

château

noun
  • Brault runs the chateau with the help of her three adult daughters.
    — Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
  • By the end of the novel, the chateau is awash in blood and body parts.
    — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The chateau is steeped in history.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • To buy this chateau gives me a lot of energy to do other projects.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The room feels like you’ve been transported to a French chateau.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The moment folks arrived, the front of the chateau was floodlit as if on fire.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Pitt is not a French citizen who keeps the chateau as his domicile.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • Airbnb had no comment on Turner and Jonas's stay at the chateau.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2019
  • Click here to see all the photos of this Connecticut chateau.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Her husband picked me up at the airport and brought me to their chateau for afternoon tea.
    — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The thieves stole emeralds and other items from a safe in the chateau, officials said.
    — Fox News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • So yes, this grand chateau looks out of place on the country backroads of Healdsburg.
    — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2022
  • This French country chateau is full of old world charm that stands out even in a neighborhood like this.
    — Hunter Boyce, ajc, 5 July 2022
  • Built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French chateau.
    — Kevin Lim, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Bing Crosby’s French-style chateau has hit the market for the first time in 6 decades.
    — Rachel Flynn, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Once strapped for cash, McGrory now lives in a French-style chateau with an ocean view.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Many of the grand chateau in Cognac were built during this golden age of Cognac sales.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The two-on-one is to drink wine and wander around the lawn of a beautiful chateau in the French countryside.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The sale includes a pair of circa 1990 chateau-style homes, one of which has direct frontage on the ocean.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2020
  • But among those in France, a 19th century stone chateau with an 18-hole golf course took the win.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The chateau has been in use since the Bronze Age as a fortress, arsenal, prison, and residence for counts.
    — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Its ancient chateau has survived the First and Second World Wars.
    — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Nicolas Devic of Groupe Mercure is the listing agent for the chateau.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • The dining room is covered in mirrors, much like the French chateau’s Hall of Mirrors.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 24 June 2026
  • The homes of the French Riviera are famously chic, and yet one century-old chateau stands out among the rest.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
  • It was built to resemble a French chateau and sits across the street from the southern edge of Central Park.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Markle and Harry’s sprawling chateau is a worthy counterpart to the grand royal estates that sit across the pond.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The White Lotus will check into a 19th century chateau for its home base in season four.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Days before the chateau in the sky was set to open, Charles Melville Hays, the man who commissioned the building, lost his life.
    — Danielle Harling, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
  • For the French, the name of this forest, Fontainebleau, evokes the elaborate 1,500-room chateau at its heart.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2020

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