Example sentences for: affluent

How can you use “affluent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hypertension is common in affluent societies and a major risk factor for heart disease.

  • Bond must have found it satisfying to be accepted by a black person who had been raised hard--and who was not from the affluent set.

  • So downward mobility and genes matter somewhat but, ultimately, we're left with the obvious explanation that in affluent societies the lower the income, the more people eat unhealthily, sit around, or both.

  • In contrast, for women under the age of 50 years, breast cancer cases were somewhat less likely than controls to have grown up in more affluent families.

  • The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island.


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