How To Use Wealthy In A Sentence

On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
With the usual prerogative of the wealthy classes, he tended to choose doctors with a reputation for having studied some topics in greater detail than usual.
Very wealthy people don't like to be questioned about whether they can support a cheque. Times, Sunday Times
They come from a privileged/wealthy background.
Very slowly or moderately it was rising, and I thought I was at the estate of a wealthy person for the architecture was very expensive looking.

The poor litigant will wait for the somnolescent process and leisurely pronouncement and the wealthy litigant will have his case speedily terminated. The Hindu - Front Page
The watertight rooms, costing from £500 a night up to £3,000 for a suite, are aimed at wealthy travellers who want a unique holiday experience.
At first the duo live in a manner that befits a pair of wealthy American socialites. The Sun
Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
Wealthy people buy the houses from the Trust, employ builders to do the restoration and move in when all is ready.
These comments provide a glimpse into the thinking of a layer of extremely wealthy Hollywood liberals or erstwhile liberals, whose commitment to democratic rights is increasingly tenuous.
The same illustration with the boy can also be translated into our global society where we have poor and wealthy nations.
On the surface, Annie Powerss life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Black Out by Lisa Unger: Book summary
In her few public appearances she resembles a well-heeled rancher's wife more than a fabulously wealthy businesswoman. Times, Sunday Times
In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence. France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
The bear leader bear-led a group of wealthy young men on a cross-country hike.
This orphanage solicits its benevolence of the wealthy people.
Ostentatious expenditure focused the attention of the poor on the wealth of the wealthy, for this of course was its purpose.
Many of the subjects are necessarily members of wealthy or aristocratic families, and part of the purpose of the show is to explore the place of children in society their dress, and their toys.
A wealthy businessman has been found bludgeoned to death.
His great and wealthy enterprise constantly formed an apple of discord.
Wealthy women might have a string of brightly coloured beads linking the two brooches across the chest.
As a wealthy businessman, he couldn't even begin to imagine real poverty.
We are always ready to sneer at wealthy men who get involved with sport. Times, Sunday Times
While the wealthy sportsman was the original English motorist, it was not until Edward VII took up motoring (with relish) that the motorcar began to gain precedence over the horse and carriage with the Marlborough House Set. The Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade
Born in Dundee, Scotland, he was a member of the wealthy Keiller family, well known amongst other things for their marmalade and preserves.
Lanikai is a community of wealthy, preposterously fit, good-looking people who seem to be constantly in motion.
Tolstikov is a wealthy professional athlete, yet he considers bananas a luxury.
A wealthy, mysterious Englishman named Henry Philips arrived in the port and rapidly gained Tyndale's trust, and hence access to the Pointz household.
Both were excellent fund-raisers among the wealthy, and they kept up feminine appearances by favouring Parisian fashions.
Tulips became a status symbol - and wealthy Dutch and European aristocrats and newly-wealthy merchant classes had to have them!
They belong to one of his students, a wealthy, charming Cuban-American named Consuela Castillo, whose thrilling desirability enchants, infatuates, and torments Kepesh. The Nihilist
He's a wealthy man.
During the past 15 years, they have transformed Poland into a paradise for big business and the wealthy, while large parts of the population lack the most elementary basic needs.
Now the losses are enormous and you'd have to be seriously wealthy to cover them.
He retired to England, a fabulously wealthy man. Times, Sunday Times
This gift for things mechanical and his skill as a mechanical engineer quickly made him a very wealthy man. THE HUNTING OF MAN
To the west of the town, on the B939, is Rufflets hotel www.rufflets.co.uk , a turreted mansion house built in 1924 for Anne Brydon Gilroy, the widow of a wealthy jute baron. Drives That Leave the City Behind
Next, a row with wealthy philanthropists and charities over a cap on tax relief for charitable giving. Times, Sunday Times
But it also is true that neither candidate came from a wealthy, politically influential family or a powerful political machine.
American defender of theirs says just the same of their industrialism and free-trade; indeed, this gentleman, taking the bull by the horns, proposes that we should for the [78] future call industrialism culture, and the industrialists the men of culture, and then of course there can be no longer any misapprehension about their true character; and besides the pleasure of being wealthy and comfortable, they will have authentic recognition as vessels of sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy
Very wealthy people don't like to be questioned about whether they can support a cheque. Times, Sunday Times
In addition, wealth is passed from one generation of the wealthy to the next.
Why did such a wealthy family need to fund the marriage of its grandson through a tacky magazine deal? The Sun
In his many years as an angler, businessman, and conservation leader, this gentle demeanor helped bring together local meat fishermen, outfitters, wealthy anglers, conservationists, and ranchers.
The initiative comes after two HMRC amnesties have failed to entice many wealthy taxpayers with offshore accounts to declare their taxable income. Treasury to get £1bn windfall in Swiss deal over secret bank accounts
She had a string of wealthy boyfriends before she finally married.
The play tells the story of a fabulously wealthy woman who seeks revenge on her heartless seducer.
They merely induce wealthy collectors to dip into their pockets.
He is suddenly appointed rector of a wealthy, old-established and very beautiful parish in the heart of rural Wiltshire.
Mother was referring to the infamous story of Helen Potter, daughter of a multimillionaire beer and wine distributor in Hyannis Port who, after she had been engaged to the son of a wealthy Boston builder, was discovered naked in bed with her closest girlfriend. Olivia
Alberti was also occupied by the dialectic of the vita activa – vita contemplativa. 33 Through his own treatise on the subject, De commodis literarum atque incommodis,34 and a study of the Florentine family, Della famiglia,35 Alberti deeply influenced a younger generation of powerful and wealthy soldier-scholars, including Leonello d'Este and Federico, who negotiated their turbulent political climate as much by tactical eloquence as by militaristic valor. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
The Duke and Duchess were so wealthy that they seemed to have money coming out of their ears.
The reforms will benefit wealthy property investors, or those who have held on to a former home. Times, Sunday Times
He's the scion of a very wealthy newspaper-publishing family.
A telling example is the narrative cycle painted on a cassone, attributed to Filippino Lippi (1457 – 1504), probably commissioned by wealthy Florentine Jews. Art: Representation of Biblical Women.
Immediately, offers poured in -- from a taverna in the wealthy neighborhood of Kolonaki, from a big baked goods chain, from green grocers in the wholesale market of Rendi, from caterers with leftovers from weddings and baptisms -- and were directed to orphanages, old age homes, halfway houses for the handicapped, soup kitchens run by churches and municipalities all over the Athens area. Diana Farr Louis: Food Aid Takes Off in Athens
Simon could have used a bit of grooming in smartening up his appearance as a wealthy young man.
The US legal system is highly politicised and thus vulnerable to undue influence from wealthy business and individuals. Times, Sunday Times
Only wealthy people will able to buy houses with large enough gardens to not be affected. The Sun
Such a glamorous home is a perk of the job for a wealthy international sportsman, the kind of holiday hideaway that footballers have long enjoyed. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, other politicians have offered their own proposals to address the advantages enjoyed by the wealthy.
In addition to working on the sports ground he was doing odd jobs as a gardener out in the wealthy suburbs. Seminary Boy
We have backers wealthy enough to bankroll the deal. The Sun
The jury heard about wealthy amusement arcade boss Vincent King's past only after it had given its verdict.
She had a string of wealthy boyfriends before she finally married.
The wealthy foreigners who like this part of town are not impressed by shabby chic. Times, Sunday Times
Wait until only the wealthy will be the only ones able to afford food which will become expensive due to it being scarce due to the increase of burnt out crops and rise in pestilence. Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee.
If he was wealthy and well loved, he could sequester himself in his own home. HERE BE DRAGONS
She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience.
Displays of wealth can also be misleading. Folks can appear wealthy -- but the mansion may be fully mortgaged, the cars might be leased and the landscaper may still be awaiting payment.
About 150 mainly student protesters carrying joss sticks and flowers gathered outside the bar in a wealthy neighbourhood of the capital and denounced its decorative use of sacred symbols and statues. Buddhist group protests, symbolically seals Buddha Bar in Indonesia
For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
I feel they are aiming at older people and people in wealthy jobs more than the younger generation.
They dug up thousands of plates, brooches, hairpins and pendants, carefully placed for the afterlife with the bodies of wealthy rulers entombed in royal burial chambers.
This lucrative sub-industry has further blossomed in recent years due to efforts made by the wealthy founder of the Templeton investment fund, Sir John Templeton, to find harmony and consilience between science and religion.
They snobbishly excluded their less wealthy friends from the party.
We should levy a heavy tax on the wealthy men.
Also know as erotomania, De Clérambault's syndrome is one in which a delusional belief is held by a patient that another person, usually older and of higher social status, famous, wealthy or in a professional relationship with the patient is deeply in love with them. Mental Nurse
This sumptuous bauble, appropriately named the Tor Abbey Jewel, was doubtless made for a wealthy patron.
He grew up in a wealthy family.
After all, this is a man so potty and unfathomably wealthy that he can walk into a shop stocking ghastly, ugly, ridiculously pricy ornaments and already own most of them.
Do you think the downtrodden and the disadvantaged got rights just by asking the wealthy and powerful really nicely?
Clever seamstresses, milliners, and tradesmen quickly reproduced the latest in sleeves, bonnets, and furnishings for their wealthy clients.
Their rarity is down to their status as the chief asset of a wealthy family. Times, Sunday Times
The rise of salary caps, luxury taxes and the like in professional sports has forced even comparatively wealthy franchises to lure marquee players with different kinds of incentives.
The kid, the son of wealthy attorneys in New Rochelle, N.Y., is a notorious computer hacker.
To feel the full glory of the sun, the joy of the Western wind, to hear the aphonous whisperings of the flowers, to be fancifully cognisant of "the music of the spheres"; better this with only a garret for your environment, than to be a wealthy Peter Bell in a palace, or a lord of many acres who sees nothing beyond its intrinsic value in a Turner, and finds Shelley poor stuff and Tennyson only a rhymster. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
Born to a wealthy cloth merchant, Francis lived a lavish and irresponsible life.
We understand that there are limits to the degree to which the wealthy and the propertied can declare independence from the society of which they are part; that they have reciprocal obligations to the society of which they are part.
He had left as a poor, working class boy and returned as an extremely wealthy man.
If genuine wealthy backers were out there, yearning to back me wealthily, was I to turn up my nose at them? Why Sarah Palin and I Aren't Running
It is the number one followed by 12 noughts; a trillion pounds is roughly equivalent to the combined gross domestic product of the world's 155 least wealthy nations.
He's emperor of a hugely wealthy Aztec mountain kingdom and can afford to treat people like dirt.
Very wealthy people don't like to be questioned about whether they can support a cheque. Times, Sunday Times
Wealthy people often migrate in winter to warmer sunnier countries.
Rate It esticide maker owned by political donor The company that makes one of the pesticides state officials are considering spraying over the Bay Area to fight the light brown apple moth is owned by a wealthy California agribusinessman who has been a generous contributor to Gov. OpEdNews - Quicklink: US: Pesticide maker owned by political donor
By 1816 she had married a wealthy merchant named Hedgeland, who was dead by 1820.
Eve discovers the world of 'parachute kids,' children of wealthy absentee Asian parents set up in palatial homes near the best high schools. The Jasmine Trade: Summary and book reviews of The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton.
We are also not being denied the entertainment supplied by the buying feats of the international wealthy. Times, Sunday Times
These changes have reduced the burden of taxation on the wealthy considerably.
In fact, only a handful of the wealthy allow their entire fortunes to be taxed.
Woolgar was a wealthy Sussex businessman whose only son was the priest at St Joseph's in Banfield.
Sundance has become a magnet for the wealthy and is one of the highlights of the social calendar. Times, Sunday Times
Even quite wealthy individuals confess to conjuring up images of going cold and hungry.
Only the most determined and wealthy supermarket-haters will continue to patronise the small shops that are trying to make a go of it again.
Terry Lierman, a wealthy businessman and lobbyist, had been considered the leading candidate among Democrats to challenge Morella next year.
Early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Both were excellent fund-raisers among the wealthy, and they kept up feminine appearances by favouring Parisian fashions.
Asking prices for properties worth 1 million or more increased in the third quarter of the year as wealthy overseas investors cashed in. Times, Sunday Times
These are luxury homes in places frequented exclusively by the wealthy. Times, Sunday Times
We should levy a heavy tax on the wealthy men.
Every day when he is not landscaping gardens for the island's wealthy, he fashions lifelike works of art much to the curiosity of admiring visitors.
He urged wealthy nations to plant tropical hardwoods in desert lands, thereby tripling the area under tropical timber within a century.
A demand thus arises for elaborate and costly manufactured articles, adapted to a narrow but a wealthy market.
Heavy, polluting industry made Glasgow ostentatiously wealthy but left tens of thousands of its citizens scrabbling for survival. The Times Literary Supplement
Appeals to save such brave but desperate men from the gallows occasionally struck a chord with the wealthy and patriotic.
For the wealthy lady, the proper layer of lingerie was important and the corsetier and couturier one purchased one’s lingerie from was a status symbol, its purchase acknowledging that the lady had a special someone for whom she flaunted her undergarments. Edwardians Unbuttoned | Edwardian Promenade
Her parents love was one of the reasons she had not been married off at some young age to a wealthy, influential stranger.
Why isn't Bill Gates trying to deconstruct the same system that made him wealthy?
Hanút," i.e., leaves of the lotus-tree to be infused as a wash for the corpse; camphor used with cotton to close the mouth and other orifices; and, in the case of a wealthy man, rose-water, musk, ambergris, sandal-wood, and lignaloes for fumigation. Arabian nights. English
In today's cartoon Rove is portrayed as the puppeteer controlling Bush's wealthy supporters in Texas (notice the Texas-style cowboy hat).
She had contracted an alliance with a wealthy man of rank.
Both companies are private client stockbrokers, which specialize in managing money for wealthy investors, trusts and charities.
Wealthy people buy the houses from the Trust, employ builders to do the restoration and move in when all is ready.
He came from a wealthy patrician family. Times, Sunday Times
The title sold about 3.5 million copies, making Miller and Broussard straightforwardly wealthy. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
As the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, he rightfully believed that the title position put his place in the uppity-stratospheric levels shared by other internationally famous, extremely wealthy and very powerful male WASP sports figures of his day (think Babe Ruth or John L. Sullivan). The Daily News - News
Luxury goods are not consumed by the poor or rank-and-file office workers, they can only be purchased by the wealthy.
Commercial influence and the grip of wealthy patrons are obtrusive and obvious.
The wealthy London-based businessman said his loyalties were with Middlesbrough.
Public institutions, such as gymnasia, were endowed by wealthy benefactors, often royal, and supervised by public officials. 5. The Hellenistic World, to 30 B.C.E
At the ripe age of 20, Kate married Oscar Chopin, another wealthy Creole and successful cotton broker in Louisiana.
The politics of the next few years will feature a bunch of wealthy men shutting down SureStart centres, ending Child Trust Funds, sandpapering down tax credits, and increasing unemployment. Johann Hari: This Is Not What the British People Voted for
She's an attractive woman, and wealthy to boot.
She says her wealthy husband left her and returned to Nigeria. The Sun
If you're single, your new love has a wealthy family background. The Sun
A circus strongman who specialised in bending steel bars, he found a lucrative alternative career digging out Egyptian antiquities for wealthy patrons. Times, Sunday Times
Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. Les Miserables
Thusly, she occupied a strange, shadowy social world where she was too wealthy to be excluded, but not worth talking to, and she moved like a ghost about the edges of cotillions and coming outs, pale and unsmiling.
Both pieces portray the wealthy as guilty, eager to please, easily fleeced babies swaddled by all that money.
But the gauzy Norman Rockwell normality he invoked won't persuade the electorate at a time of 10 percent unemployment, the Damocles sword that hangs over his head for 2012, when voters will get a chance to weigh in directly on his presidency, which he has largely placed in the hands of Ivy League meritocrats more concerned with protecting their wealthy coevals than the general public. Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference
Without easy access to wealthy first world markets, economic development is difficult if not impossible in the second and third worlds.
Six out of every seven dollars of the tax cut will benefit big corporations and a tiny layer of the very wealthy.
The poor in these paintings provided an opportunity for the prudent and beneficent wealthy to display their charity, such as in Beechey's Portrait of Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy.
Liberal railings against ‘tax cuts for the wealthy’ usually leave me feeling quite dyspeptic.
According to Professor Spencer, a drop-off in income tax receipts has been the result of the collapse in the technology sector, and the fading fortunes of wealthy financial workers.
Their numbers swelled in the summer months with the influx of wealthy New York worthies. AMAGANSETT
His business is prospering, and he is becoming increasingly wealthy.
Writing from Dorset, I am piqued that he overlooked the wealthy owners with empty spare houses, of which this sceptred county has more than its fair share. Letters: Treading on housing footprint dreams
An ex-mercenary with special 'psychological chameleon' type abilities to blend in locally, is now hired to find out why an incredibly wealthy functionally immortal man was killed. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
Wealthy Britons pay tens of thousands to bag a lion, elephant or polar bear in trophy hunts that recreate images of a bygone colonial era
There will be a clampdown on high pay, another new levy on the wealthy and an army of new inspectors to catch rich tax dodgers. The Sun
There are still clearly identifiable wealthy families, even if their assets are spread across different holdings and various forms of investment.
At least a dozen people attend on the bride of the wealthy prince.
Where there was royal or wealthy patronage the choice could range from a grand audience chamber to an intimate drawing-room.
Jean Chretien (though now wealthy) is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.
The wealthy would garnish their cakes with meat, such as pork and beef.
Now lives will be lost unless wealthy nations are prepared to act on a larger scale than ever before.
So thinks Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, the New Scotland Yard man looking into a wealthy Cumbrian family's private deeds and secrets in the latest Lynley chronicle from Elizabeth George. In Brief: Mysteries
He will preach and say, you might be a rich man and you are without avarice, or you might be a poor person with only a penny in your pocket and you might be avaricious because you desire to be wealthy.
Despite her wealthy background, she loves a bargain at a shopping outlet. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of hecatombs of fat oxen sacrificed by the tribes of a wealthy city to their tutelar deity the emperor complains that he found only a single goose, provided at the expense of a priest, the pale and solitary in habitant of this decayed temple. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia. ShoutWire.com
I willingly grant to you that some women are so wealthy, placed in situations requiring so much representation, that it would be degrading to them to take much thought about any thing but the beauty and fashion of their clothes; and that an anxiety on their part about the preservation of, to them, trifles would indicate meanness and parsimoniousness. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
His father was a successful textile manufacturer and his mother a dancer from a wealthy Polish family. Times, Sunday Times
The soup that boil must add water, wealthy person gave him a few water.
He was a wealthy man these days, and dressed in doublet and hose with a gold chain round his neck.
Inside the house, I expected a typical wealthy Essex businessman's abode: crossed sawn-offs over a granite mantel, widescreen TVs in every tennis court, more fake marble than you could shake a building society branch at.
The fat fees I charge my wealthy clients subsidize the pro bono work. THE RHYTHM SECTION
The reasons there is such a problem now is that we removed government regulations causing a finical crises; and the GOP spent away our surplus on wars, and tax cuts to wealthy people who thn in turn speculated in assets expanding the bubble. Matthew Yglesias » Regulating Bubbles Away
No longer will the wealthy traveler have to endure the hardships of airport concourses open to anyone able to buy a ticket.
The bulls were raised by wealthy landowners although we do not know whether, or to what extent, this was a profitable activity. A Social History of Modern Spain
Few unions are wealthy enough that a significant loss of membership is not damaging to their cashflow. Times, Sunday Times
But that fact hides dramatic income inequality: while wealthy citizens live luxuriously in sequestered Guatemala City neighborhoods, the poor are barely noticed, living like feudal peasants in the countryside. Hungry in Guatemala
The care of the publique must oversway all private interests, for it is a true rule that perticuler estates cannot subsist in the ruinue of the publique." sic It's very difficult to hear the arguments against taxing the inordinately wealthy as reflecting anything of that evangelical sentiment and social imperative. Frank G. Kirkpatrick: Searching For The Common Good In Political Discourse
I think she will find that wealthy landowners earn significant amounts of money from many things, which the rest of us end up paying for. Times, Sunday Times
He grew up in a wealthy family.
There were no guarantees that the wealthy, stable, democratic regime of later years would emerge.
The wealthy Pellisi's voice was dripping with unpleasantness and dislike.
This is not some minor tweak affecting only the wealthy. Times, Sunday Times
An Egyptian-educated scholar, Nik Aziz said non-Muslims had nothing to fear from strict sharia punishments, known as hudud, and a lot to gain from them, especially Malaysia's large and wealthy ethnic Chinese minority. Now, here's a political platform....
A subscription would make Leapor economically dependent upon the goodwill of the wealthy.
Labor delivered several generous tax handouts to the wealthy and corporate elite under Hawke and Keating.
He censures the cruelty of slave masters, the dodges of legacy hunters, and the meanness of the wealthy, but the targets of his criticisms are normally anonymous.
A wealthy businessman has stood bail for him.
Wealthy investors and property speculators are not exempt. Times, Sunday Times
These changes have reduced the burden of taxation on the wealthy considerably.
Still, I felt a small tug of pride that I had spent so many hours with this powerful and wealthy man, and had been told we were simpatico. VITALS
They live in a wealthy/poor/friendly neighbourhood.
The new visas open the way for wealthy foreign investors to get a British passport in half the present six years. Times, Sunday Times
Margaret came from a wealthy family, and Richard was anxious to allay any suspicion that he had married for money.
Wealthy people had turkey, chicken and game pies. The Sun
Republican efforts to repeal estate taxes and lower income taxes - predominantly of benefit to the wealthy - is now being marketed to the public as a way to stimulate the economy and to forestall an economic downturn.
The protest that gave Protestantism its name was against display, against the staginess of the Catholic Church, and its aversion to theatrics applies equally to money: better to appear less wealthy than you are and keep putting in the hours. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
But the wealthy Egyptian more commonly provided for the future of his Ka by bequeathing a portion of his estate to the priesthood, in prepayment for sepulchral meals in perpetuity. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
But it has been criticised for handing out large amounts of taxpayers' cash to wealthy private individuals.
the expatriation of wealthy farmers
Now he does both from the deck of a luxury liner, advising wealthy clients on their investments. Times, Sunday Times

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