Example sentences for: privileged

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

  • "We who are currently privileged to hold public office have ourselves to blame," he laments in his stump speech.

  • Rather than equalize opportunity, the SAT turns the uppermost percentile into a privileged class and perpetuates the educational disadvantage of other test-takers.

  • I did not have access to any privileged information either.

  • Both are from privileged backgrounds, which both--in honor of another bit of democratic sentimentality--are trying to disown (Gore by emphasizing the Tennessee aspect over the Washington aspect of his childhood as a senator's son; Bradley by making a big deal about growing up in a small town where--as he doesn't emphasize--his father was president of a bank).

  • When it was revealed to the Governor of Chaldea that Hinduism was in fact a serious religion with too many faithful to treat in this way, another solution had to be found: Hindus, along with Parsis who had fled an earlier Muslim persecution in Persia, were given the privileged status of dhimmi, dues-paying non-believers.


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