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 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

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

  • It is, I suppose, likely that people with little money must think of money more than the well-off do and that the hungry will dwell on thoughts of food and the thirsty on drink.


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