Examples of 'well-to-do' in a sentence
Meaning of "well-to-do"
Well-to-do: Well-to-do is an adjective used to describe someone who is wealthy, affluent, or prosperous.
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- Rich, prosperous, financially stable and comfortable.
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It has always been the privilege of the well-to-do to use their business as camouflage.
Some well-to-do merchants are allowed to skip the mobilizations by flexible local units.
His surroundings and appearance are those of a well-to-do man of the middle class.
The movie focuses on a well-to-do family whose house is almost completely destroyed.
In the municipality is this breathtaking beach that is bordered by a well-to-do holiday community.
The establishment was visited by well-to-do couples from the city as well as traveling tourists.
Well-to-do people tend to ignore homeless people regardless of how pitiful they look.
Obvious everywhere is the enormous wealth and extravagance of the villas of the well-to-do.
It brings home to the well-to-do sector of society the meaning of hunger and thirst.
Ezeiza and its surroundings is an affluent area where many well-to-do people live.
Well-to-do people enjoyed the winter season by travelling about in their elegant sleighs.
The paidagogos was the slave whom a well-to-do man had placed in charge of his son.
Selling our well-to-do comrades a highly efficient carburettor part for their outboard motors.
Those who develop technology in the world see well-to-do people as their target audience.
Only well-to-do senior couples will see substantial tax savings from income splitting.
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Adam attached a new home to his factory and married the daughter of a well-to-do family.
And then he takes a well-to-do graphic designer and drops her off in a seedy neighborhood.
I still held to my theory that the assassin was a well-to-do man suffering from religious mania.
His family was well-to-do and his forebears included congregationalist ministers and noted educators.
This often led to numerous confrontations between noble but impoverished samurai and well-to-do peasants.
Talk to attractive and well-to-do people more often as this sends a message of your worth.
The patrons of the popular art were the local governors and the more well-to-do subjects.
The system encourages well-to-do members to take care of the less endowed within the family.
The goings to the people of the agitated young men and girls from well-to-do families.
His father was a well-to-do owner of a snuff mill that he had inherited from his father.
The wives of imams and teachers organized home schools for girls from well-to-do families.
Where well-to-do people can afford to build luxury homes and poor people go without homes.
Anthropologists have explained the practice as a traditional method for well-to-do men to procreate additional labor.
Well-to-do households buy bottled water but most households store piped water and treat it themselves.
Davos has long been a popular place with the well-to-do and those suffering from respiratory ailments.
Well-to-do families and their relatives may also send their children abroad for university education.
Contemporary sources therefore mention Isenbrandt as a famous and well-to-do painter.
The majority of these were either well-to-do citizens or members of the Tsarist administration.
He used to be a transport manager at Karachi airport and is from a well-to-do family.
He and his wife and their children were well-to-do members of Augusta County society.
Samuil was a well-to-do electrical engineer and a distributor of electric motors for German manufacturers.
The majority of its members came from the well-to-do classes of the Catalan capital.
Many well-to-do Egyptians were interred or entombed with their most expensive bracelets and jewelry.
She said that she had been born in a fairly large Mexican city to a well-to-do family.
That young man was from a very well-to-do Bialystok family something Mama was not.
A well-to-do country girl comes to Montreal immediately following the British occupation.
Bradshaw was the only child of a well-to-do Roman Catholic in trade at Manchester.
His was a well-to-do family of noble ancestry count of Martirano San Nicola and of Mottafilocastro.
Marie Krøyer née Triepcke came from a well-to-do German family living in Copenhagen.
Concurrently many well-to-do and middle class white Americans fled the area to more distant suburbs.
Could almost be dressed as if he was a well-to-do drug dealer.
Rothesay remains a well-to-do residential community for Saint John ; the local employers are primarily service industries.
Not exactly the dwelling of a well-to-do woman.
He was born in a well-to-do family in Morampudi village near Tenali in Guntur district.
I used to housekeep for a very well-to-do widow.
