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:

  • Politicians may not care much about them at all if they aren't relatively well-off or members of targeted "swing" groups of voters.

  • Some savings would come from higher income and payroll taxes, especially on well-off workers and retirees.

  • In "Trumpet Voluntary," Michael Kinsley misses something essential when he argues that potential volunteers, and in particular well-off ones, might do better to donate their money than to actually volunteer.

  • Any party expecting its program to be taken seriously as a left-of-center alternative to conservatism must surely propose one of two things: Either it must promise to increase in the aggregate the quantity and quality of public services (and the taxes needed to pay for them), or else it must promise, within an unchanged total of taxes and spending, to redirect the flow of resources so that the less well-off get more.

  • 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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