Sentences with nabob
na·bob
N n - The most endangered predators he meets are Indian lions, which were once protected by Indian nabobs but now threaten local livestock and compete with the populace for scarce resources.
- Despite what the funding nabobs think, the works that define our film culture to the world outside are the ones that are the most unorthodox.
- It dawned on me that all the friends I had made, all two of them, were nabobs, and both had magnanimity.
- ‘One would expect such deportment from scalawags, but not you noble nabobs of Wall Street,’ wrote Cannell.
- They were defended as affording opportunities for new non-landed interests - brewers, bankers, nabobs - to obtain representation.
- Now that the series has been pencilled in for another 10 years, perhaps the GAA nabobs might consider giving the manager's job to the one man who deserves it the most.
- For the next eight years he ceased to exhibit and lived the life of a nabob in Cairo.
- He died in 1790, having made a living as a government propagandist and a fortune as agent of the nabob of Arcot.
- Hager is an Asburian nabob ; his elderly father is a past president of the college, and Hager himself currently sits on his alma mater's board of trustees.
- She is his insurance beneficiary; the rest of the nabob 's once substantial wealth has mysteriously evaporated.
- She is happily married to an Irish nabob, Eamon, whose Midas touch makes even his goyishness forgivable.
- Six years in India, painting nabobs and rajas, restored his fortunes.
- It's a good thing the young'uns have scared the nasty nabobs that run the labels with their high jinks.
- This is nonetheless the India of economic potential, the place where the fortunes of adventurous nabobs were made.
- Or rather the network nabobs think they appreciate him, but he's crossed the pond twice to discuss a possible career-making TV deal, to no avail.
- Seemingly more preoccupied with their cottage cheese and egg salad than with the City Hall nabob in their midst.