How to Use countess in a Sentence

countess

noun
  • Life hasn't always been a cabaret for the former countess.
    — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Countess made three tackles and broke up a pass against the Chargers.
    — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 27 Aug. 2017
  • De Lesseps emerged pretty close to on time (by countess standards), and the crowd went nuts.
    — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2018
  • The countess took notice of the fabric from the locals and adopted it for her staff.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Thousands were evicted by the countess over the course of the Clearances.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
  • For every successful drug, there are countess numbers that fail.
    — Kimberly Kindy, Washington Post, 28 June 2017
  • Luann de Lesseps Life hasn’t always been a cabaret for the former countess.
    — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2019
  • The countess’s walls and upholstery reeked of smoke, and opening the windows only filled the rooms with chilly wind.
    — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • That duality — louche by day, countess by night — was built into the Apolline.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • George Herber and wife Fiona, the eighth earl and countess of Carnarvon, own the place.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
  • But the countess couldn’t stop wondering where Alberta’s dress could be.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The young countess smiled solo in the first shot and kneeled to pet the family dog Cerise in the second image.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The countess was witty, sarcastic and dryly resigned over all six of the show’s seasons.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Krakowski is the saving grace of this episode, but all of the appeal of the countess is in the performance rather than the writing.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Then one day, a countess checks in wearing a green parrot and promises to tell Marta seven stories.
    — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The countess was photographed joining women survivors in a textile skills workshop.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Oct. 2022
  • And like the countess had mentioned earlier, sometimes the past was not the best about preservation techniques.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Gunther wasn't the loyal companion of a mega-rich German countess.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Though the countess was famously beautiful, the portrait that emerges of her is not enviable.
    — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The countess' ring was stolen from a car in the 6th District, according to Le Parisian.
    — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 5 Apr. 2019
  • Led by a countess with a secret (Jeanette Hain), Johanna proves to be a quick learner.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Joachim's children will remain in their place in the line of succession, and still be able to use their titles as counts and countess of Monpezat.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Carter’s wife, Imelda Staunton, joins the movie and plays a foil to the dowager countess (Maggie Smith).
    — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Thrones pushed the Emmy drama race out of its era of dowager countesses and troubled men and into one where robots and demogorgons could at least have a shot.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
  • Another story took him to a private cruise ship for the ultra-rich, which serves in the novel as a home for Campbell’s mother-in-law, a countess.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Ergo, Peter must best the city’s fiercest warrior in single combat, fly and make a bereaved countess laugh for the first time since her brother died in battle.
    — Michael Nordine, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
  • At one summer soirée, in 1856, the countess and the French Emperor spent a long time alone on an island in a lake.
    — Anika Burgess, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
  • 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 countess solicited the London publisher Archibald Bell to review the rest of the poet’s work.
    — Kovie Biakolo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2022
  • In 2001, its owner, an Italian countess, fell to her death from the steep hill leading to the sea, her body washing up in France.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2022

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