Examples of 'landed gentry' in a sentence

Meaning of "landed gentry"

Landed gentry: Refers to a social class consisting of landowners who have inherited their wealth and status
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  • A Landowning upper class. Most of them were the nobility and the landed gentry.
  • Traditional landowners, typically in Britain, who live off the income the land they own brings in.

How to use "landed gentry" in a sentence

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The landed gentry are good with dogs.
I did not realize you were such landed gentry.
His parents were landed gentry so he was well educated.
I never had much to do with landed gentry.
The landed gentry of the south prepare to meet.
I did not realise you were such landed gentry.
Even the landed gentry.
To have accorded with the tradition of the landed gentry.
Are these the same landed gentry whose land you stripped.
You are the wife of the landed gentry.
I may be landed gentry and you might be some tart from the stage.
Settles into a life of the landed gentry.
They are landed gentry and are highly respected in the village for their noble qualities.
Her mother came from landed gentry.
The landed gentry and aristocracy ruled Britain at this time.

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All married into the local landed gentry.
Lazarus Long lived here as landed gentry sometime in the early fourth millennium.
The assumption is that they are marrying into the landed gentry.
They were against the landed gentry but for our good Czar.
Collecting things is not just reserved for the landed gentry.
Both his parents were from landed gentry families based in the southern half of Staffordshire.
He was part of the landed gentry.
No landed gentry Chelms.
And threaten the landed gentry.
No landed gentry Chelm.
Her husband is landed gentry.
He was born to a landed gentry family, loved music and was a talented violinist.
His family belonged to the untitled landed gentry szlachta.
Burke 's Landed Gentry in the article Landed gentry.
Reckon they are landed gentry.
The D'Ascoynes certainly appeared to have accorded… with the tradition of the landed gentry.
An example is the landed gentry of the British Isles.
There is more to private service than consorting with the landed gentry.
Was a prominent surname among the landed gentry in Leinster and Munster.
Officers were largely recruited from among the nobility and landed gentry.
You are the wife of the landed gentry and I am a cater waiter at a Seder.
Because of its beauty the kujawiak was embraced by the landed gentry and the nobility.
Has the life of landed gentry blinded you already?
Hans von Tschammer und Osten was born in a family of landed gentry.
Mahalanobis belonged to a family of Bengali landed gentry who lived in Bikrampur now in Bangladesh.
Dmitry Grigorovich was born in Simbirsk to a family of the landed gentry.
Waterton was of a Roman Catholic landed gentry family descended from Reiner de Waterton.
One day he stopped working, and invented a past for himself as a landed gentry.
Whoever heard of the landed gentry working?
Islam spread more slowly among the peasantry and the dihqans, or landed gentry.
And that 's something the landed gentry can not digest.
Both of Littleton 's parents came from the middling landed gentry.
As the expense soared, many of the landed gentry tried to avoid military service.
In the 19th century shooting was a popular past time among the landed gentry of Europe.
The book series Burke 's Landed Gentry recorded the members of this class.

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You should have landed your plane
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Examples of using Gentry
The gentry may lose a few acres
His parents were landed gentry so he was well educated
The gentry do with them as they please
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