Example sentences for: aristocratic

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

  • In all of them, scenes of repressive formality (hoary English actors sipping sherry in drawing rooms) would be shattered by scenes of Dionysian release (Dracula or some other fanged entity swooping down in an animalistic frenzy), and an aristocratic figure of both science and Christian faith--usually the crisply self-satisfied Peter Cushing--would show up to lecture the frightened villagers and pound a stake through the heaving bosom of some temptress.

  • Tuscan painter Simone Martini has decorated the St. Martin Chapel (first left) with exquisite frescoes, including a most aristocratic Jesus appearing in St. Martin’s dream.

  • In Renaissance times, the quarter south of the Arno, Florence’s “Left Bank,” was an aristocratic preserve where the Medici held court.

  • Alois Estermann, wasn't "aristocratic" enough for the job.

  • For most moderate Republicans, though, the principal reasons not to switch party are nostalgia and aristocratic indolence.


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