How to Use heiress in a Sentence

heiress

noun
  • Her wealthy aunt had fought the heiress’s mother for custody and won.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • Each year, the heiress would only be forced to withdraw a small amount.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 26 July 2019
  • In the book, our man Fletch is engaged to an heiress from Italy.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Earlier this month, the heiress shared footage of precious time with her two children.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The endeavor was to be paid for by steel heiress Amy Phipps Guest.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The name Paris Hilton may conjure up an image of a glamorous heiress.
    — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The endeavor was to be paid for by the steel heiress Amy Phipps Guest.
    — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • But that all changes in this next installment, which is told from the perspective of the heiress whom the knight served.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Rapper Annie is the first chaebol heiress K-pop idol.
    — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2025
  • McCain was an oil heiress who was proud of her husband and sons’ Navy careers.
    — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2020
  • If Swiatek is the queen of clay then Pegula is the hard court heiress this summer.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • His mother, who died in 2011, was the heiress to a plastics fortune.
    — Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 21 June 2018
  • But Leslie said at the ceremony last Friday that the young heiress had a plan.
    — Joe Hotchkiss, ajc, 29 May 2021
  • From the looks of it, Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt will not be in attendance.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • One of the main features that drew in the heiress and her husband happened to be the neighborhood, the release noted.
    — Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2025
  • However, Parker was not an heiress and had only ever worked at a staffing agency.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
  • The heiress and journalist says her reasoning stems from the emptiness of taking, and the joy of giving.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Maria Fabiola is the heiress to a sugar fortune and part of a group of girls who all attend the same private school.
    — Molly Young, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2021
  • His first two wives were the heiress Minnie Cushing and the model Cheryl Tiegs.
    — Stacey Stowe, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • For their first soccer game, the hotel heiress enlisted her kids' help to place the official opening match ball on its stand.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 27 June 2026
  • The Colombian heiress had problems of her own, obviously.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The six-part podcast series unravels the twisted tale of Stover, his ex-wife, the heiress, and the bodyguard.
    — Kc Baker, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Funding comes from the likes of Radiohead, a rock band, and Aileen Getty, an oil heiress.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The Hilton heiress tied the knot with Reum in November, and then set off for a honeymoon around the globe.
    — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • But Marianne Smyth, who was born in Maine, was not an Irish heiress, and there was no fortune.
    — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Wilson is an heiress to the Holiday Inn hotel fortune and her husband has long been linked to the princes.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
  • By the end the Wall Street man is ruined and the journalist has both a Pulitzer Prize and an heiress wife.
    — Janan Ganesh, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The former Gucci heiress might not be thrilled by the film, but the rest of the world can't wait to see why Gaga is serving snowslope chic.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Hot, heiress and reality TV maven Paris Hilton is getting busy in the kitchen.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The heiress and entrepreneur has a princess moment in a romantic pale pink gown with floral appliqués and a matching cape.
    — Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025

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