Example Sentences

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Yesterday’s countesses lacked those freedoms and were bound to serve as propriety’s standard bearers.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

He jived and twisted with Gloria Vanderbilt and a succession of foreign countesses.

From MSNBC • Nov. 15, 2017

Malloy saw his own artsy social circle in the novel’s princes and countesses.

From The New Yorker • May 5, 2017

Marquises and countesses pose in faux-rustic settings, their gray curly hair gathered into rat tails.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2016

To organize a resistance would have been impossible, with countesses fainting on every side, duchesses in hysterics.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James