How to Use magnate in a Sentence

magnate

noun
  • But Musk isn’t the first magnate to get his own town in Texas.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 5 May 2025
  • The tech magnate continued to fume about the state law last week.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • Things haven't gone quite as well lately though for the furniture magnate.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 4 Feb. 2022
  • This week, the French magnate has shed as much as $13 billion in wealth.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The only problem is that the business magnate hates him — and for good reason.
    — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Branson has already been the first billionaire space magnate to ride his own ship.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 19 July 2021
  • This honored guest is not a world leader, a billionaire magnate, nor a war hero.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • But no magnate besides Gates has met one-on-one with the president.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • His father, Raymond, was a steel magnate and something of a tyrant.
    — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, the shoe magnate’s hotel is an entirely new, ground-up design.
    — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Gaston was a strict parent for an aspiring magnate.
    — Simon Akam, Vanity Fair, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Customers who caught onto the magnate’s whereabouts began to crowd shopping malls to get a glimpse of him.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 June 2023
  • The owner, a Greek shipping magnate, then used the yacht just twice before listing it.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The winter hasn't been so kind to the Houston furniture magnate.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The 64-year-old real estate magnate hasn’t come down from Cloud 9 and doesn’t want to.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 30 May 2021
  • The hedge-fund magnate is worth about fifty billion dollars and is an unabashed big spender—from pièds-a-terre to politics.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
  • His work caught the eye of a local real estate magnate, John Portman, who hired him.
    — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The late hotel magnate and duck hunter Barron Hilton built a vast wilderness playground here.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The younger Russert wore a Perot mask to meet the deceased Dallas magnate.
    — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • The home was a wedding present from the groom’s father, mining magnate Daniel Guggenheim.
    — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 11 May 2021
  • Newspapers fell into the hands of magnates who advanced their own interests.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • For those who don't watch B&B, is your character, who is a publishing magnate, a good guy or a bad guy?
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2020
  • One Russian magnate’s dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events that will take the world to the brink of chaos.
    — Charna Flam, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Manny Kadre, the Miami auto magnate and chair of the board of trustees, is on the inside, too.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 2 May 2026
  • But a Miami bank did consider the magnate and his family risky.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The Bellagio, opened by casino magnate Steve Wynn, was designed to change all that.
    — Brett Martin, Bon Appétit, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Tulsa King's third season found Dwight feuding with a vicious liquor magnate over a distillery.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
  • There are motorcycles and fascist youths and a stage mentalist who teams up with Hicks for a while; there’s a thread about a cheese magnate.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The actual man has no tie to the real diamond magnates of the Leviev family.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • More recently, Ellison has emerged as a behind-the-scenes media magnate.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025

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