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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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