Example sentences for: well-to-do

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

  • With scads of women monopolized by the well-to-do, less fortunate men could get mighty lonely and become very unhappy campers.

  • Will a tax cut have a huge productivity payoff or just line the pockets of the already well-to-do?

  • The well-to-do purchased imported cloth and had apparel made by itinerant tailors or those in small shops.

  • By the late eighteenth century, the Catholic Church forbade additional burials inside churches, supposedly for public health reasons, but the ricos, the well-to-do, continued to buy their way into the churches.

  • But capital-gains and estate-tax cuts of almost any sort will surely favor the well-to-do in the long run.


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