How to Use peerage in a Sentence

peerage

noun
  • He was given the peerage after years of devoted service to the community.
  • Again, your mileage may vary, and it probably will be based on your location and peerage.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The rank of duke is the top title in the British roll of peerage and one that Philip held for more than seven decades.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • But rules governing the peerage have remained the same, giving priority to boys.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 4 June 2018
  • The king granted her the peerage of Countess of Salisbury in her own right, a rare honor for a woman at the time.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The Torlonia, however, earned their peerage for skills other than martial valor.
    — Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
  • There are also more than a thousand baronets, a title associated with country squires that ranks below a baron and is not part of the peerage.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
  • To win a vote in Parliament, James sometimes simply established new peerages.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Some holders of actual peerage titles have reportedly sold titles for large sums, but that’s a different matter.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • Firtash partnered with an aristocrat named Raymond Asquith, who now holds a peerage in Parliament.
    — Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • Chen Feng, the firm’s chairman and founder, has the Chinese political titles that are the equivalent of a peerage or knighthood.
    — Sharon Lafraniere, Michael Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
  • The Duke of York is the traditional title for the sovereign's second son, and the elite peerage has a rich royal history.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But Lord Carrington and some other former leaders of the body were given life peerages, extending their rights of membership for the rest of their lives.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • While crossbenchers are appointed by an independent committee, most life peerages are handed out by the prime minister, often to reward aides, allies and donors.
    — ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Though most historians agree that Anne was likely innocent of the crimes she was accused of, she was nonetheless unanimously convicted by a court of the peerage.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Today, however, the heralds are experts on such things as history and genealogy and provide advice on anything to do with the peerage and royal ceremonies.
    — Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022
  • Lord Carrington was given a life peerage in 1999 after most hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2018
  • The fictional Kingdom of Redonda is something of a running in-joke among European artists, who occupy the throne and make up most of its peerage.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Renée Kuo, the managing director of Debrett's, the authority on British peerage and etiquette, agrees.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2018
  • Subject to a dizzying hierarchy of peerage and obscure jurisdiction, justice eludes him at every opportunity.
    — Dustin Illingworth, The New Yorker, 20 May 2020
  • Many of the reforms have been championed by Lady Newlove, who was given a peerage in 2010 and has held the new post of victims’ commissioner for the past seven years.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • His father, Charles Jenkinson, had been a political man of business and parliamentary manager, sufficiently valuable to be raised to the peerage as a reward for his service.
    — Allan Massie, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2018
  • In addition to seeking Mandelson’s withdrawal from the House of Lords, Starmer has sought to strip him of his peerage — a somewhat Herculean task that can only be done through an act of parliament.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Historical-romance authors love the British peerage system so much that bookstore shelves groan with many, many more dukedoms than the two dozen or so that actually existed in the United Kingdom of the 19th century.
    — Karen Ostergren, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025

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