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:

  • The advertisers deploy the images to persuade the well-off and upwardly mobile that Crown Royal should be the Chablis or chardonnay of their generation.

  • 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!

  • However, the rationale for this standard is predicated on the assumption of significant financial and technical support being given to the effort, and on the least well-off countries receiving the most support (L.

  • The prevalence of chronic conditions such as hypertension, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and coronary heart disease (CHD) in developed countries demand substantial medical resources [ 1 ] . Moreover, these conditions are becoming increasing common among the well-off groups in middle and low-income countries [ 2 ] . While the quality of life and health of individuals is adversely affected by chronic conditions, there is a concomitant loss in work productivity [ 3 4 ] . This is especially important for middle and low-income countries where skilled labor is relatively scarce and the treatment of chronic conditions may entail a reduction in health care resources available for diseases afflicting the poor [ 5 ] . A preventive approach to chronic diseases is therefore appealing.

  • (The pope has recently joined the call for debt forgiveness for poor nations, but he was surely talking about Fourth World economies such as Mozambique, not relatively well-off places such as Argentina.)


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