How to use countess in a sentence

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• The queen was pleased to accept the countess into her household as a lady-in-waiting.From the entry pleased
• The offended countess swept out of the ballroom.From the entry sweep
• The countesses’ husbands were generally quite lavish.From the entry -'
• “A countess,” he said so quietly she could hardly hear him.2006 January 31, Shana Galen, Pride and Petticoats, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry earless
• “This is a very urgent message for the countess’ ears alone,” replied Rokoff.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43. From the entry slip
• For the next few minutes he rather neglected the game, the countess absorbing his entire regard.1905, Louis Joseph Vance, Terence O'Rourke, Gentleman Adventurer, New York. From the entry hapchance
• To the ditch-tenders, the beer- and breadmongers, the cushion furnishers, the envoy of ceremonies, and the countess herself, gods forbid.”2013, Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 500. From the entry breadmonger
• On the shelf beneath him is the figure of his countess, less resplendent, but with a gilt coif above her marble face.1931 July, John Buchan, “Epilogue”, in The Blanket of the Dark, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, published September 1933…. From the entry odour of sanctity
• The countess is a considerable landed proprietor and she keeps the hotel in order that she may there sell the estate eggs.1915 February 14, Byron Lomax, “Behind the Russian Lines in Poland”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 35, number 150, Kansas City, Mo.…. From the entry countessly
• "Dracula the Un-Dead” forsakes the epistolary format of its forebear in favor of a penny-dreadfulish narrative pitting the first book’s surviving characters against a monomaniacal vampire countess.2009 October 22, Jan Stuart, “Fiction Chronicle”, in The New York Times. From the entry penny-dreadfulish
• Considering the enormous cost of the gowns, which the countess had insisted Leah needed, she imagined the couturière’s fees for such work would be equally as hefty.1994, Charlene Cross, Almost a Whisper, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry couturière
• When the ball was at its height the countess cast a countessly eye over the floor and noticed that there were more people there than she had counted on.1928 July 28, C. B. Pyper, “Al. In the Dark”, in The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, volume XXXIX, number 180, Winnipeg, Man., page 9. From the entry countessly
• He enjoyed the pleasant social intercourse with Olga’s friends, while the friendship which had sprung up between the fair countess and himself was a source of never-ending delight.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 41. From the entry lacerated

Meaning of countess

1. noun The wife of a count or earl.
2. noun A woman holding the rank of count or earl in her own right; a female holder of an earldom.

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Questions about countess in a sentence

How do you use countess in a sentence?

Countess is used as a noun. For example: “Elizabeth Millicent Leveson-Gower is 24th Countess of Sutherland; her son will be the 25th Earl.”

What is a short sentence with countess?

“The countesses’ husbands were generally quite lavish.”

What does countess mean?

Countess means the wife of a count or earl.