heiress
IPA: ˈɛrʌs
noun
- A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
- A woman who has received an inheritance.
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Examples of "heiress" in Sentences
- 'That your little niece, the Scotch heiress, is going to marry him.'
- A wealthy heiress is murdered aboard a luxury cruise liner, and everyone's a suspect.
- A cardboard cutout of the skank heiress is being used on lab mice to see if being around humans has any effect on them.
- The hotel heiress is keen to live forever and has invested a large sum of money in the world's biggest suspended animation cemetery, Cryonics Institute.
- In films, in addition to "Patty Hearst," in which she played the title heiress-turned-terrorist, and the psychological thriller "The Comfort of Strangers" (1990),
- A mischievous comic tone is also set right away, so that by the time we meet eccentric shut-in heiress Penelope Stamp (a luminous Rachel Weisz), it fits right in.
- In addition to Schrader's "Patty Hearst" (1988), in which she played the title heiress-turned-terrorist, and the psychological thriller "The Comfort of Strangers" (1990),
- Now, supposing that Miss Monroe and Mary O'Grady had agreed to change places, the Pekin heiress, for the time being, occupying Mary O'Grady's place in the humble home at Cork and vice versa, what means of communicating with each other had they arranged?
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