Example sentences for: aristocrat

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

  • Those of conservative or center-right proclivities characteristically look at America's past through the eyes of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat who toured the fledgling United States in the 1830s, gathering observations and ideas that were, in due course, published in Democracy in America . Tocqueville's opus has become one of the modern world's most influential political ethnographies--that is, a set of densely descriptive observations of another nation, written to influence political debates back in one's own country.

  • The 700 page work centers on a debt-ridden Atlanta aristocrat.

  • The sculptures were bought in 1803 from the then-Turkish authorities in Athens by the British aristocrat Lord Elgin, who subsequently donated them to the British Museum.

  • Within the cloister, in the north gallery, is a striking fresco of the Triumph of Death (1360) showing how a humble person and an aristocrat face the same destiny.

  • An aristocrat by birth, he introduced electoral constituencies called demes and set up a sovereign citizens’ assembly and a senate, whose members were chosen by lot.


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