Sentence examples for a princely sum from inspiring English sources

The house was a wreck, but they got it for sixty-five twelve thousand (twelve thousandollarsrs)—a princely sum at the time, though well under the asking price, as de Wolfe never tired of mentioning and its restoration became her life's great project.

It's certainly not a princely sum.

Apple-core justice is priced at a princely sum.

To many people in many places, it is a princely sum to live on.

Just what's heaped around our feet at the threshold of the chamber is a princely sum.

That is a princely sum in one of the world's 10 poorest countries.

The first episode cost roughly $12 million to make, a princely sum for a pilot.

A princely sum in those years, but peanuts compared with the salaries of other top athletes.

Content may be king, but being a distributor can bring in a princely sum too.

It has a budget of around $50m, a princely sum by Chinese movie-making standards.

His family sold the company in 1974 for $84 million, then a princely sum.