Example sentences for: aristocrat

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

  • 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.

  • This liberal-inclined aristocrat was, in effect, the supreme ruler of Athens and its empire for 30 years until his death in 429 b.c.

  • His was, as he saw it, a continuous poetic journey, aided here and there by slaves or muses--Arthur Symons, the symbolist who introduced him to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé in the 1890s; Maud Gonne, who made Irish nationalism romantic; Lady Augusta Gregory, an Irish Protestant aristocrat who collaborated with Yeats in his search of old Irish folklore and legends; and Ezra Pound, who stiffened Yeats' soft "Celtic" verse with a little modernist geometry.

  • The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.

  • When Renoir's well-off fellow Impressionists, the aristocrat Manet or the banker's son Degas, strolled through the working-class neighborhoods of Montmartre, they were consciously slumming.


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