How to Use crown prince in a Sentence

crown prince

noun
  • He's been heralded as the crown prince of jazz.
  • Trump is one of those who hail the crown prince as a reformer.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The Gulf has emirs, crown princes, and kings who flatter him.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Its statement did not mention the crown prince’s own alleged role.
    — Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom’s crown prince, wants that to change.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The crown prince, needless to say, agrees that his reforms are a boon for his country.
    — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022
  • While crown prince, the king made his pet poodle, since deceased, an air marshal.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is the head of that fund.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
  • The Saudis said that the team acted on its own and that the crown prince was not involved.
    — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • His daughter then married an Italian crown prince.
    — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Granting women the right to drive is part of a wider blueprint for the future drawn up by the crown prince.
    — Aya Batrawy, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2018
  • Since then, the crown prince, known as MBS, has been the kingdom’s day-to-day ruler.
    — Justin Scheck, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
  • But the Saudi crown prince’s penchant for moonshots isn’t just a matter of words.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2023
  • The crown prince could soon be the king and therefore Biden’s formal counterpart.
    — NBC News, 20 Feb. 2021
  • And the crown prince’s effort to boost the private sector is strangely centralised.
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • As a 16-year-old crown prince, he was caught having an affair with a 17-year-old page.
    — NBC News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • And when the Saudi crown prince came to Houston, Steuart’s firm set up his safe house.
    — Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Karl’s father, Otto, was the last crown prince, born in 1912.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The exchange may help bolster the crown prince's mediating role in the Ukraine war.
    — Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Biden met with the Saudi crown prince in July as gas prices in the US reached record highs.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The former crown prince is the son of the late King Hussein and his fourth wife, Queen Noor.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The meeting with Biden could bestow greater legitimacy on the crown prince’s plans and his path to the throne.
    — Ellen Knickmeyer, Chris Megerian, Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2022
  • The moniker also has family roots — Rupprecht was also the name of the last crown prince of Bavaria.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The following month, Mohammed bin Salman, the young crown prince, granted women the right to drive.
    — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The choice of crown prince is significant, since Sheikh Nawaf is already 83 and in poor health.
    — Stephen Kalin and Summer Said, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Frederik and Mary’s eldest son Christian, 18, has become crown prince and heir to the throne.
    — Jan M. Olsen, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Many in the former crown prince’s camp take a sharply antagonistic stance toward the rest of the opposition.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Biden said the purpose of his trip was not to meet with the crown prince but to position the United States in the region for the future.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022
  • Pahlavi, 65, was named crown prince during his father’s coronation in 1967.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But as president, Biden landed in Riyadh in 2022 and warmly fist-bumped the young crown prince.
    — Byvivienne Walt, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023

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