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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The private collection includes paintings of old Madeira by 19th-century English artists and the apartments of a well-to-do 18th-century Madeiran household.

  • 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.

  • In 30 years, however, an immense landfill project transformed it into the city’s most fashionable residential and commercial district to which the well-to-do moved from Beacon Hill and the South End.


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