Wealthy

//ˈwɛl.θi//

"Wealthy" in a Sentence (21 examples)

The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders.

Yachts are for the wealthy few.

Judging from those facts, Mr Mori must be a wealthy person.

The wealthy family built another large house.

The lawyer has a lot of wealthy clients.

The industrialist found a wealthy financier to help him weather the storm which was inevitable.

The orphan was fostered by the wealthy man.

Even though Mr Smith was very wealthy, he was a tightwad.

I found that Kate was wealthy.

Chris is very attractive and wealthy, but not very modest.

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As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.

As people stall feed through the years, or if they are wealthier to begin with, the money is used to build houses and buy metal roof sheets, or to buy bicycles, ox-carts and breeding cows.

Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows.

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question.

The wealthy pay most of the taxes but the uberwealthy hardly pay any at all: they hold stock and property and live off debt borrowed against that collateral.

F. Scott Fitzgerald never got over Ginevra King's dad reminding him he wasn't a wealthy and needed to aim lower.

it was possible for a group like the Libertarians to hope that a couple of weakminded wealthies might donate the seed money to get a campaign rolling.

Bernice is a nice, sardonic tale of envy and young wealthies of the pre-flapper era, when a girl who bobbed her hair was thought loose by the flask-bearing blades who tried to get her tight.

Ending tax cuts to wealthies would only increase tax revenues by $40 - $60 billion a year - about 20% of current deficit - so it's a waste of time.

Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.

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