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:

  • Harper's Bazaar introduced a Debutante Department in 1928 to gain market information for advertisers; it surveyed three thousand well-to-do young women, rewarding each with a grab bag of cosmetic gifts.

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

  • The oldest wooden house on the island — it was built by shipwrights around 1790 of American soft cedar — it has been restored and is now a museum that offers a delightful view of life in well-to-do Nassau in the 18th century.

  • 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.

  • Behind the Begijnhof is the old Convent of St. Lucian, which became the city orphanage after the Alteration, although it was only open to well-to-do orphans; the poor had to fend for themselves.


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