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How to use millionaire in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Millionaire means somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies). Example: “The cost of an opulent wedding is spare change to a millionaire.”

More sentences with millionaire

  • The cost of an opulent wedding is spare change to a millionaire.From the entry spare change
  • And then he was like, "Oh, my brother's an Internet millionaire, blah blah blah." Like I care!From the entry blah
  • His parents are wealthy, but he is a millionaire in his own right.From the entry in one's own right
  • The cost of an opulent wedding is loose change to a millionaire.From the entry loose change
  • I used to be a millionaire back in the '80s. ― Is that so?From the entry is that so
  • The lonely millionaire reflected bitterly on the unpurchasability of true love.From the entry unpurchasability
  • The cost of an opulent wedding is pocket change to a millionaire.From the entry pocket change
  • The millionaire viewed his gift as arid.From the entry arid
  • The company had produced several millionaires, but they were illiquid, with not nearly as much cold hard cash as nonrich people might tend to imagine.From the entry cold hard cash
  • Aw yes, nothing screams Scottish freedom quite like a millionaire Australian anti-Semite on horseback.2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor)…. From the entry anti-Semite
  • At one time you were a “ten dollaraire,” then a hunderedaire, thousandaire, millionaire, multi-millionaire etc.2011 August, Bill McKenna, “Chapter 17: Uncaused Joy”, in The Only Lesson, United States: Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry dollaraire
  • The school is owned by the South Pacific Corporation, and that is owned by a Hainan millionaire.[1997, Justin Hill, A Bend in the Yellow River, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 251. From the entry Hejin
  • Does that mean by investing more speculatively some of you will become millionaires?1987, Lawrence A. Krause, Sleep-Tight Money: A Guide to Managing Your Money Safely and Achieving Financial Peace of Mind, Simon and…. From the entry multithousandaire
  • One of Arizona's regular trailer visitors is a millionaire tobacco processor.1950, Arizona Highways, volume 26. From the entry trailerite
  • A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't.1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier. From the entry Ryvita
  • Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry acceptedly
  • They have no millionaires, very few thousandaires, more hundredaires, and mostly dollaraires.1906, William Harrison De Puy, The Methodist Year-book, Philips & Hunt. From the entry dollaraire
  • Now once more this is not always the case and you will have heard speak of the two week millionaire?2020 May 10, Bill Church, “The Thai Woman Diaries”, in Herald-Tribune, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2022. From the entry two week millionaire
  • While starting early can increase your likelihood of attaining millionaire status, the investments you choose play an equally important role.2017 May 16, Maurie Backman, “Here's how to become a millionaire on $56,000 a year”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2025. From the entry likelihood
  • Those people who eventually become millionaires typically don't get there through sheer luck or by making one life-changing investment.2017 May 16, Maurie Backman, “Here's how to become a millionaire on $56,000 a year”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2025. From the entry life-changing
  • “India is not really about ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’ It’s about slumdogs versus millionaires, and that’s what you’re seeing in Delhi now.”2010 September 28, The Associated Press, “Delhi Hides Workers and Beggars as Games Near”, in New York Times. From the entry slumdog
  • Squatters evicted from mansions on millionaires’ row.2009, The Guardian, 29 January, (headline). From the entry Millionaires' Row
  • I have that same failure to become a millionaire.2006 April 23, Laurie S., “Re: I wanna know”, in talk.rape (Usenet), message-ID <njdn42dghgioknts3kslv7not1mneuhvaf@4ax.com>. From the entry tenthousandaire
  • So many millionaires dropped to only hundred-thousandaires overnight.2003, Allan Gould, “[Adopt-a-Child, United States; Adopt-a-Child, Canada] American Children Need Your Help”, in G.I. Joe or Anne of Green…. From the entry hundred-thousandaire
  • "If you're after some money," said the millionaire, "move that cat out of the way." Catweazle shook his head.1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 80. From the entry mayhap
  • Eliot's) like a silk hat upon a Bradford millionaire.1958, The Canadian Historical Review, volume 39, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 241. From the entry culture vulture
  • On the East Coast they fleece the millionaires.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 119. From the entry sucker trap
  • Millionaires are not much troubled with hyteria.1910, Albert G. Detch, “Much Hysteria Abroad in the Land”, in The Bridgemen's Magazine, volume 10, page 835. From the entry flabile
  • The students he was hanging out with back then are all millionaire microchip engineers now, but even among them, he was a natural.2014, Lee Henderson, The Road Narrows as You Go, Toronto, Ont.: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry synesthesiac
  • This trope appeals to audiences and award juries alike, while avoiding the obvious issue that there’s a lot of slumdogs who will never become millionaires.2010 December 9, Sarah Boslaugh, “Review:Waste Land (Arthouse Films, NR)”, in Play by Play, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2010. From the entry slumdog
  • Many paper millionaires instantly became part of the "90 per cent club" (people who had lost 90 per cent of their wealth, or more).2003 July 29, Helen Kirwan-Taylor, “Rock bottom? We're on a high”, in The Telegraph. From the entry nineties
  • So many billionaires became only millionaires.2003, Allan Gould, “[Adopt-a-Child, United States; Adopt-a-Child, Canada] American Children Need Your Help”, in G.I. Joe or Anne of Green…. From the entry hundred-thousandaire
  • Freedom was in the air this spring, when millionaire philosopher Ivan Kramberger stumped the countryside on a platform of Slovenian independence and social welfare.1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 120. From the entry stump
  • He ended up, in only four years, a member of the executive bonus plan, a plan that made millionaires of more than a few "Commodorians".1985, High-tech Marketing, volume 2, page 78. From the entry Commodorian
  • Gordon Blanding, millionaire patron of the arts, bought the island's southern tip and built a Shangri La for his San Francisco friends.1975, Jack Mason, Helen Van Cleave Park, The Making of Marin (1850-1975), North Shore Books, page 111. From the entry Shangri-La
  • When I first came down here I saw this millionaire, I wondered how he could wear such cheap suits and drive a Chevvy.1975, Robert Lipsyte, “Designated Heroes, Ranking Gods, All-Star Holy Persons”, in SportsWorld: An American Dreamland, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry Chevvy
  • Millionaires are a fact, and far from a wholly pleasing one; but how about the hundred-thousandaires and the hundreds of thousands of ten-thousandaires?1924 April 12, Albert W[illiam] Atwood, “What Is Taxation For?”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 196…. From the entry ten-thousandaire
  • There were wilder stories of a millionaire wishing to transplant Glastonbury Abbey and similar buildings as if they were portable shrubs in pots.1922, G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America. From the entry idolatrise
  • Their arrival came as residents of the island struggled from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Maria, but the young millionaires—some of them were billionaires—had another priority: creating "Puertopia."2020, Jeff John Roberts, Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street…. From the entry Puertopia
  • These aren't ordinary doughnuts, either - Siop Shop's flavours have included millionaire shortbread, lemon meringue, cherry bakewell and even a collaboration bake with beer in it.2020 February 16, Emily Heward, Daisy Jackson, “The A to Z of restaurants from around the world in Manchester”, in Manchester Evening…. From the entry cherry bakewell

Meaning of millionaire

  1. noun Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies).

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Questions about millionaire in a sentence

How do you use millionaire in a sentence?
Millionaire is used as a noun. For example: “The cost of an opulent wedding is spare change to a millionaire.”
What is a short sentence with millionaire?
“So many billionaires became only millionaires.”
What does millionaire mean?
Millionaire means somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies).

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