Example sentences for: well-connected

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

  • Chatterbox already knew Fannie Mae was one of the last great Washington rackets--a place where ordinary, competent, well-connected politicos and lawyers get to earn astronomical, Gordon Gekko-like sums (Johnson made an estimated $7.2 million in 1996) while working to preserve the government favors that help this ostensibly private, for-profit enterprise earn $3 billion or so a year.

  • Nor, at the other end of the scale, can we match the Spanish superlative suffix - ísimo , e.g., grandísimo, altísimo, bellísimo (rendered in English as the `biggest,' the `highest,' the `most beautiful,' although for an exact equivalency one would use the other superlative form in Spanish, más grande, más alto, más bello ). Nothing I have ever heard in English can match the breadth of lighthearted insult expressed by a Spanish wit some years ago who used the suffix with reference to the notoriously pampered, well-connected, well-heeled, well-placed brother-in-law ( cu ñado ) of Francisco Franco.

  • Character after character, although well-connected, well-educated, and well-to-do, is laid off work, or "made redundant."

  • Wangfujing itself has a long history, serving as the exclusive neighborhood of the well-connected and the rich during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

  • Like many well-connected, artistically inclined Mexicans, he got into cushy work that supplied living expenses and food for the imagination: diplomacy.


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