How to Use princeling in a Sentence

princeling

noun
  • Even princelings, including one of Deng’s sons, lost their elections.
    — Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Some bonsai are hundreds of years old, their lineage recorded as carefully as any princeling’s.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The only child of an heiress and judge, Cohn was an outer-borough princeling, that borough being the Bronx.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • In the coming months, a place of respite—or at least a refuge from the cries of princelings—may be particularly precious to the Prince.
    — Melanie Broder, Town & Country, 10 May 2013
  • That’s uniquely true of Oedipus, the limping princeling fated to kill his father and marry his mother.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Will Yun Lee shines as Colonel Moon, a renegade princeling with hovercrafts and rage issues.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
  • In this case, a nefarious princeling hellbent on conquering his own father's kingdom.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The Lars homestead is well-automated, though, so Luke comes off like a joyride princeling, still playing with a toy spaceship.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Some princelings were profoundly disillusioned and decided on another life choice, which was to have fun and make money.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2025
  • His son grew up a princeling in his father’s shadow, undergoing none of the hardship that forged the father’s authority.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
  • One of their favourite princelings indulges in such spectacular double standards quite transparently.
    — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 30 Dec. 2019
  • For a time, Mr Wu was backed by powerful princelings, as the descendants of revolutionary leaders are known.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But the antagonist is not so much a professional criminal as a corporate princeling who abuses his wealth and privilege.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Kannauj is a four-hour drive from Agra and just shy of two hours from historic Lucknow, a former princeling state governed by the Nawabs of Oudh.
    — Rachna Sachasinh, National Geographic , 4 Jan. 2021
  • The kids are a little lame, frankly, though Ethan Hazzard has fun as a clerical princeling maintaining aristocratic dignity in a grungy mud colony.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • His daughter is a prominent adviser and spokeswoman for the regime; his son-in-law, a tycoon princeling who once mismanaged a small media house, serves as an envoy to kingdoms and republics elsewhere.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The young princeling rose quickly through the ranks, and in 2002 he was named the party secretary of Zhejiang province, on China's eastern coast.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Prince George, the third in line to the British throne, turns 6 tomorrow—and to mark the occasion, Kensington Palace has released new portraits of the little princeling.
    — Tess Kornfeld, Glamour, 21 July 2019
  • The princeling president As the struggle in China over financial market reform illustrates, many more people, and many more interests, have stakes in how things are now than in previous eras of reform.
    — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2014
  • California governor Gavin Newsom is a princeling of progressivism who has ascended to the summit of political power in one of the bluest states in the country, and yet is in real danger of suffering a humiliating defeat.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Aug. 2021
  • In less than 24 hours, the 36-year-old real estate princeling had repeated all the textbook mistakes of American diplomacy in the Middle East, and rendered his visit ineffectual at best, if not a step backward.
    — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2017
  • But the princeling’s case may be different because the public is increasingly unwilling to indulge the double standards long enjoyed by families who were lionized a generation ago for helping to turn South Korea into a manufacturing powerhouse.
    — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2017
  • But the princeling's case may be different because the public is increasingly unwilling to indulge the double standards long enjoyed by families who were lionized a generation ago for helping to turn South Korea into a manufacturing powerhouse.
    — Youkyung Lee, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2017

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