Example sentences for: gentry

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

  • But I have noticed that is is principally the windier electronic journalists, and advertising and PR gentry, who like to use the word media (often pronounced [MEEja]), whereas those print journalists who have sensitivity in English usage rarely use it.

  • For those with time, a romantic way to visit some of the best is on the burchiello, a modern version of the rowing barge that took the gentry, Casanova, and Lord Byron to their trysts and parties in the country.

  • The British, who didn't go through the dislocation (and revivification) of a revolution, simple allowed the gentry to establish the colloquial norm for those who counted themselves among the educated, and mined the literature for texts to constitute a canon that would be taught as a stylistic and, as a by-product, grammatical model.

  • The results—perhaps totally unforeseen—have rather been a shift in linguistic authority away from the gentry and Oxbridgians to the media.

  • This definition of FPM of Gentry et al.


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