How to Use courtier in a Sentence

courtier

noun
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  • Each courtier can bring up to three princesses to make a party of four.
    — Susan Harrison, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
  • Ibn Khaldun suffered all the ups and downs of a courtier close to power.
    — Eric Ormsby, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
  • At the court of Louis XIV, courtiers wore embroidered pink frock coats with their red heels.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2019
  • The cost for the girls tea, craft and activity is $20 per person and $25 for each courtier.
    — Susan Harrison, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
  • Under the British monarchy, courtiers paid kings for the privilege to fine.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Hukka asked the courtier who came into his bedroom to draw back the curtains.
    — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The Kremlin -- and the Russian elite of courtiers and oligarchs around it -- is not always united in one voice.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 4 May 2017
  • Many of Trump’s current courtiers may be gone in a year of two, but the members of his family will remain.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
  • Princess Anne walked into a room where King Charles was surrounded by courtiers.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • At the Palace of Versailles, courtiers regarded the drink as an aphrodisiac.
    — Hugh Hart, WIRED, 7 July 2010
  • For a time, courtiers lived one version of the American Dream: home and business combined under the same roof.
    — Andrew Wood, Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
  • Fawning courtiers orbiting a king and his consort: that is no way to run a country.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Trump courtiers and wannabes might mill around the lobby of the hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue that bears his name.
    — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Jamil Joseph leans into the pretentiousness of the courtier Clitander.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • The place was like a courtier in the Palace of Versailles, constantly powdered and perfumed to mask the unpleasant odor beneath.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Egyptian queen’s vast burial complex also includes the tombs of 41 servants and courtiers.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Donald Trump, by contrast, relies on courtiers who whisper in his ears.
    — David Perry, CNN, 9 June 2017
  • But many observers worry that an absolutist king and his courtiers are putting Thailand on course for a fresh round of protest—and the inevitable bloody put-down.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
  • But is the courtier engaged in a calculating power move?
    — New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • The courtier inherited the unique dukedom when his father, Miles Fitzalan-Howard, died in 2002.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
  • His story of dreamy lovers split apart by scheming courtiers is also a protest against rulers, like the unseen duke, whose riches are wrung from the blood of their people.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • He is tricked into joining a delegation to London by a courtier who has eyes for his wife.
    — Dominic Dromgoole, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The Clintons and the Obamas, it must be said, didn’t just tolerate Weinstein as a donor and fundraiser but welcomed him as a courtier.
    — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Last month, courtiers said that the King had to dip into cash reserves during an expensive royal year.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • Either way, royal courtiers have woken up to some consequences of the Brexit vote.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Chanakya argues to the angry courtiers of Pabbatta that Chandragupta has won in a fair manner.
    — Anand Neelakanthan, Quartz India, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Some suggested that a bunch of independent rats would serve as caretakers or courtiers to the king.
    — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2019
  • London was a tough market to crack, but the estate of the lady’s courtier-husband was one of many in the countryside — this one, 100 miles north in Norfolk county.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The Times of London quoted courtiers who also said that the king was tired from his previous day’s hospital procedure.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024

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