MILLIONAIRE in a Sentence

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26 example sentences for MILLIONAIRE, such as:

1. You must have touched a millionaire this time, dad.
2. Sometimes it seems like Internet marketing is just a millionaire boy club.
3. So the master of Monte Cristo gives himself airs befitting a great millionaire or a capricious beauty.
4. Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
5. I'm not a millionaire, Miss Scarlett, and considering the money I used to have, what I've got now sounds small.

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 Meanings and Examples of MILLIONAIRE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
millionaire
 n.  one whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  And when they asked who was going to lend the money she said: "Layovers catch meddlers," so archly they all laughed and teased her about her millionaire friend.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  I'm not a millionaire, Miss Scarlett, and considering the money I used to have, what I've got now sounds small.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  Bjornstam told his scapes: selling horses in a Montana mining-camp, breaking a log-jam, being impertinent to a "two-fisted" millionaire lumberman.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  She became secretary to a New York millionaire and social counselor to his wife; and after a well-conceived speech on the discomfort of having money, she married his son.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  "We're no millionaire dudes," he boasted.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  The invitation was from a man named Fisher, a Chicago millionaire who had given up his life to settlement work, and had a little home in the heart of the city's slums.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
7  The millionaire suggested that Adams bring Jurgis along, and then start up the subject of "pure food," in which the editor was interested.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
8  So the master of Monte Cristo gives himself airs befitting a great millionaire or a capricious beauty.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.
9  To Danglars Monte Cristo also wrote, requesting him to excuse the whimsical gift of a capricious millionaire, and to beg the baroness to pardon the Eastern fashion adopted in the return of the horses.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays.
10  To no class of persons is the presentation of a gratuitous opera-box more acceptable than to the wealthy millionaire, who still hugs economy while boasting of carrying a king's ransom in his waistcoat pocket.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
11  Still, baron," said Monte Cristo, "family griefs, or indeed any other affliction which would crush a man whose child was his only treasure, are endurable to a millionaire.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 104. Danglars Signature.
12  One particularly good result of this advertisement of his scheme was that he came to rank as neither more nor less than a millionaire.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
13  Millions are easily come by, for a millionaire has no need to resort to crooked ways; the way lies straight before him, and he needs but to annex whatsoever he comes across.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
15  You must have touched a millionaire this time, dad.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
Example Sentence:
1  Sometimes it seems like Internet marketing is just a millionaire boy club.
2  Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani school girl shot in the head at point-blank range for advocating girls' education, has become a millionaire by signing a deal for around USD 3 million to publish her memoir.
3  He is described as a Texas oil millionaire and environmentalist, which might appear to be self-contradictory.
4  Understandably, new tech millionaires might want to disguise their wealth at a time when resentment is rising toward tech workers gentrifying the Bay Area.
5  Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.