Example sentences for: gentry

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

  • 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.

  • He derides the BBC and respectable newspapers as "unpopular" media subsidized by a condescending, out-of-touch gentry.

  • At stake was the class structure of the South with its landed gentry commanding a servile class of laborers.

  • 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.

  • At the corner of St James's Place and St James's Street was the map store owned by Sir Francis Chichester, of single-handed sailing fame; across St Jame's Street was-- still is--Boodle's, a club for the gentry; round the corner was the famous French restaurant, Prunelle's.


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