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How to use nabob in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word nabob? Here are some examples.

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But other than that, remember folks, it's been a huge success and anybody who doesn't see it that way is a nattering nabob of negativism.
For the next eight years he ceased to exhibit and lived the life of a nabob in Cairo.
She is happily married to an Irish nabob, Eamon, whose Midas touch makes even his goyishness forgivable.
He died in 1790, having made a living as a government propagandist and a fortune as agent of the nabob of Arcot.
Nawab, English nabob, deputy ruler, or viceroy, under the Mughal rule of India.
It may be true that there are among Buddhist mendicants, living on alms in dirt and penury, some who feel perfectly happy and do not envy any nabob.
Thus the word nabob came to mean someone of great wealth or unusual prominence.
One nabob even seems to have commandeered the challenge to reignite an old grudge.
It's very easy to believe that, had he cared to try, Stallman might have become as rich as Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, or any other Silicon Valley nabob.
Examples from Classical Literature
The nabob, who was mannerly, went to speak to the aunts and find them seats.
And thus he not only filled himself, but satisfied the nabob also.
I lost this bracelet at the house of the rich nabob, Alfred Sassoon.
First of all, the nabob offered it to the heydukes one by one.
For them, every rich foreigner is a nabob, no matter whence he comes.
He had expected the nabob to be enraged, not rejoiced at the news.
She will be the light of the harem of a nabob with many tails.
Thomas Metcalfe was one of the last of the Nabob species before the wave of egalitarian and utilitarian thinking washed across the subcontinent.
This was the surname of the Nabob in Tunis, the label, as it were, of his luck.
There were two Kojahs in the employ of the late Nabob of the Carnatic.
At length the Nabob dismissed us, and we retired from the durbar.
A great change had come over the Nabob both externally and internally.
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