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:

  • Rum-running became a major industry, and well-to-do Americans began making the short trip to the Bahamas to be able to drink legally, and to indulge in other pleasures.

  • A fine example of an 18th-century house, it is now the Museum of the Puerto Rican Family, full of the furniture, toys, and other daily artifacts of a well-to-do San Juan family.

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

  • Carefully restored mansions of the well-to-do have been turned into museums, while art galleries, craft shops, and restaurants occupy additional lovely old buildings.

  • At the same time, an architect named Robert Adam became popular in the fashionable circles of the well-to-do, having made a name for himself in England.


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