How to Use fat cat in a Sentence

fat cat

noun
  • The best seats in the theater were reserved for the fat cats.
  • But Bergman’s the sort of lawyer who strikes fear in fat cats’ hearts.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • The young angler did have a few pounds on the fat cat, but not many.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Two fat cats scrambled on the rocks around me like mountain goats.
    — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Nah, that's for the fat cats and money-grubbers.
    — Steph Wagner, CNBC, 1 Jan. 2026
  • This is what an actual fat cat that has no muscle tone would look like.
    — Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • This is one government fat cat the public is happy to see back at work.
    — Fox News, 3 Dec. 2019
  • More monthly and energy bills to bail out their fat cat friends who fund their little.
    — cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
  • But the army of fat cats did not come to Virginia Beach simply to save the state.
    — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The real problem with Britain is not an excess of fat cats but a shortage of cream.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Bankers still boil over with rage about him, wincing over his 2009 line about fat cats as if the wounds were fresh.
    — Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • There has been music and dancing and marching and a giant inflatable fat cat perched atop a red car.
    — Rebecca Nathanson, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The fat cats in Congress who’ve been making a killing on Wall Street were none too pleased.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
  • This block doesn't have the foot traffic of too many fat cats that can afford it with much regularity.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 27 Sep. 2017
  • But that dynamic does not benefit only the fat cats with deep pockets.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Over the past few years, there have been awards for tallest and ugliest dogs, fattest cats, and now there is a new record for the dog with the longest tongue.
    — Sarah Elsesser, ajc, 5 Oct. 2017
  • That group joined forces with a similar organization, fat cat Fab Lab.
    — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 19 May 2020
  • Since that day, Ford has waited for another fat cat to steal her heart, even telling her two grandchildren about her plans to care for an overweight feline.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
  • Many of Hong Kong’s fat cats would surely resent giving up their weekends there to help the very people who are out making trouble.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Poor poll numbers caused panicky Democratic Party oligarchs and fat cat donors to oust him as their candidate.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Though many corporations could still afford suites, fat cats high-fiving while their employees lost their jobs and their companies were taking bailouts was a bad look.
    — John Seabrook, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • While tycoons imagine a future of taxiing their fellow fat cats to space on a whim, these billionaire-plaything rockets keep exploding.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 27 May 2023
  • Pulled in by the promise of thrills or the guarantee of glamour, readers will stay for the game of survivor(s), and finish the book as satisfied as a fat cat in the Serengeti.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • His accomplishments–a massive corporate tax cut, a strong stock market–have largely redounded to the benefit of the bankers and fat cats.
    — Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • His fat cat industrialist Zsa-Zsa Korda is no underground rebel.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This isn't Westeros; no one's out here massing troops on opposite sides of a meadow while the fat cats in the biggest tent play an oversized game of Risk and tend to their carbuncles.
    — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
  • That led to a period of populist ferment hostile to fat cats, including mass strikes and ultimately the New Deal of the 1930s.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Speakers addressed the crowd from a Teamsters Local 25 flatbed adorned with an inflatable fat cat, depicted smoking a cigar and holding a moneybag.
    — Lucas Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Good management might sound like tame stuff compared with promising to punish the fat cats, as Mr Corbyn does, or sailing off into the great blue yonder, as the Brexiteers would wish.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Such imperial prices dramatize the city’s inequities, but the building that some disdained as a fat cat’s bazaar has proven to be — for better or worse — the most influential construction project in New York.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018

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