Example sentences for: aristocratic

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

  • Eleanor's instincts were aristocratic.

  • (The conventional wisdom on the 18 th -century painter: He was said to be "a decadent ally of aristocratic taste"--Solomon; "an advocate of pomposity, cynicism, and costume drama"--Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books .) Hughes sees new levels of wit in Tiepolo's paintings: "[T]he distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern."

  • (Barcelona’s emerging merchant class favored such façades as an inexpensive substitute for the sculpture that was found in aristocratic palaces.)

  • An obsequious 1992 New York Times Magazine profile put it this way: "In the Governor's office, Weld has restored a tradition of aristocratic Yankee lordship, he has made governing look easy and WASP ascendancy seem an expression of natural law, if not of divine right."

  • Today, one of the palaces, the Puri Anyar, acts as an aristocratic type of homestay, where guests can experience the traditional hospitality that might have been extended to honored visitors in the past.


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