How to Use laird in a Sentence

laird

noun
  • Malcolm is now laird of Clan Grant.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Ellen forces him to remember that a good laird must possess a business mindset, too.
    — Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no time to figure that out as the Mackenzie brothers argue over who should be the next laird.
    — Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In episode 3, the question of who would be named the next laird of Clan MacKenzie came to a head.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • In Davina’s eyes — and Lord Lovat’s — Julia is this pretty new thing who has drawn the attention of the laird.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Not a laird’s wife (yet), Letitia MacKenzie mostly defers to Ellen and seems pretty cool about the whole thing.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Brian and Ellen, for example, will have to face the consequences that come with murdering Malcolm, the new laird of Clan Grant.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Then there’s the laird of North Uist, Fergus Granville—think of a laird as a cross between a mayor and Downton’s Lord Grantham.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2016
  • Séamus McLean Ross costars on Blood of My Blood as a young Colum MacKenzie, the sickly brother of Ellen and Dougal, who goes on to become laird of the clan.
    — EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The whole of clan MacKenzie descends upon Castle Leoch to pay their respects and also attend the Gathering, in which there are games and feasts and boar hunts and, most important, the oath-taking, in which the new laird will be chosen and everyone will pledge their fealty to him.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025

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