Example sentences for: well-heeled

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

  • Now seriously, Chris, if you had a bunch of well-heeled businessmen ready to fulfill your every whim, wouldn't you ask for something better than a titanium knee or a riding mower?

  • The sandy beaches and yachting harbors of Port’Ercole and Porto Santo Stefano are favorite weekend destinations for well-heeled Romans (with a growing international presence), but they’re much quieter during the week.

  • A faded resort of earlier times, dignified San Remo is the best known, with its well-heeled casino and elegant promenade along the Corso Imperatrice.

  • After all, the use of a hyphen in adverb/adjective compounds is a matter of style, which can be described in a rule: in position before a noun, compounds with well --indeed, any not ending in - ly --like well-heeled, well-known, well-thought-out , are hyphenated, as in well-heeled gambler, well-known man-about-town, a well-thought-out plan ; but when they are in predicative position, as in Is she well heeled enough to sit in on our game?

  • According to one South Carolina paper, soccer mom is "a well-heeled super-parent whose primary mission in life is to do too much for her children.


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