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Example sentences for: gentry

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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.
And a residue of estates reminds voters of the landed gentry's historic role as parasites.
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.
The results—perhaps totally unforeseen—have rather been a shift in linguistic authority away from the gentry and Oxbridgians to the media.
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.