Example sentences for: aristocrats

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

  • He's "the last of Hollywood's sex-god aristocrats" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The praise is less fulsome for Twilight , in which Newman plays a retired detective who is talked into investigating a murder even though his lover (Susan Sarandon) is implicated . The self-conscious cracks about aging and the stylish shots of Los Angeles are said to be entertaining, but the movie's pace is deemed sluggish.

  • Under pressure from the poorer classes, who did not want the Revolution appropriated for the exclusive benefit of the bourgeoisie, the Jacobin-led revolutionary committee ordered sweeping measures of economic and social reform, which were accompanied by a wave of mass executions, the Terror, aimed at moderates as well as aristocrats.

  • The ambitions of Napoléon Bonaparte stretched as far as the Western Hemisphere, and an influx of French aristocrats buoyed French sentiments.

  • By the year 1500, seeing their world breaking up, many Majapahit aristocrats, priests, and scholars fled to Bali, where their culture continued to flourish.

  • Free women of color were included among the concubines of white aristocrats, their lives organized according to arcane social codes.


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