Example sentences for: aristocrats

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

  • As 18 th -century British aristocrats wallowed in sugar, the working class yearned for it, creating a demand that would underlie the expansion of enormous sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and hence the slave trade.

  • Where aristocrats and movie stars and others who can afford it stay.

  • Exquisitely detailed dolls in ancient costumes representing the imperial couple and other aristocrats are displayed for good luck.

  • Spain was backed by Portuguese aristocrats, eager to avoid war.

  • But as a historian, I can't resist remarking that the cultivation of the inessential is a trademark of aristocratic societies (aristocrats deliberately spend their time on trifles to show that they can , and others can't), and that as charming as it appears to outsiders, most native members of the society are unlikely to be so well disposed, since the burden of the aristocracy falls on their shoulders.


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