Example sentences for: well-off

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

  • Indeed, many terrorists come from relatively well-off families.

  • Lewis portrays SNCC's Atlanta branch as being made up of well-off Negroes who carped all the time.

  • The Wall Street Journal "Business Bulletin" has a fact that dramatizes how profoundly well-off this country is--Americans throw out approximately 12 percent of the stuff they buy at the supermarket.

  • She fits a standard anorexic profile: overachieving daughter from a well-off family, with a distant father and a mother whose ambitions (intellectual and sexual) have left Ruth feeling overshadowed and neglected.

  • Good heavens, snorted the conventional wisdom: That would be to create two classes of care in this country, one for the well-off and one for the poor!


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