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Example sentences for: gentry

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

At the upper end of the social scale, Malays make up the royal courts of the sultanates — country gentry enjoying an occasional game of polo and the other good things in life.
The bridge across to Ile St-Louis leads to a blessed sanctuary of gracious living, its quiet streets lined by elegant houses and mansions, long popular with the city’s affluent gentry.
At stake was the class structure of the South with its landed gentry commanding a servile class of laborers.
And a residue of estates reminds voters of the landed gentry's historic role as parasites.
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.