How to Use aristocracy in a Sentence

aristocracy

noun

• As a covert agent for the British Home Office, Sirius makes a game of earning the aristocracy’s confidence.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Sep. 2024
• Of course the British aristocracy isn’t the sole source of eponyms.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2020
• It’s just pages and pages and pages of the goings-on of the British aristocracy.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2021
• Spencer, who is a member of British aristocracy, is not in line to the throne.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
• But in many living rooms, the aristocracy was back in vogue.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• The name honors the British Isle of Jersey where the local aristocracy bought and sold slaves.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• The exhibit even shines a light on how the human body was used as medicine among the British aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
• Kate is not of the aristocracy, and that was taken for granted.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2019
• The joie de vivre was not exclusive to the aristocracy.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• And if the Spencers had a problem with the Windsors, what must the English aristocracy think of the Middletons?
  — Will Frears, NYMag.com, 20 Mar. 2011
• In 1240 the panicked aristocracy of the old princedom of Kiev abandoned the city, which was half destroyed.
  — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
• My mother came from aristocracy, and my dad came from the South Side of Chicago.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
• The idea that a princess would marry outside the aristocracy, at that point, was beyond.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2019
• Among French aristocracy, the term came to mean a dinner where everyone brought food and drink to share.
  — Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
• Versailles is the hub of the French aristocracy, a great beehive dripping with honey — and bristling with stingers.
  — Samuel Ashworth, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• Then Lenin’s 1917 guillotine dropped on the aristocracy like a cleaver on a sturgeon full of caviar.
  — Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, a clear line also had to be drawn between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy.
  — Henry Notaker, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
• The aristocracy of this city is ready to move on, daring to hope that the last four years was a fever that finally broke and life can get back to normal.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• For centuries, the aristocracy have held court at the Palace of Westminster.
  — Brad Japhe, TIME, 25 July 2024
• Watch as the two fall in love while Diego gets reacquainted with aristocracy.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 24 Feb. 2022
• Here, black descendants of slaves can realize the kind of wealth once reserved for the white aristocracy of the Deep South.
  — Brett Pulley, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2020
• Putting yourself out there and talking about money can still be seen by much of the British aristocracy with an eye roll.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• What these changes augur, in his view, is the crystallization of a caste system in the United States and the birth of a new aristocracy.
  — Kanishk Tharoor, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2020
• Some people in Australia are still hanging on to that British aristocracy idea and I was brought up in a version of that.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• In aristocracies across the globe, rank and title are paramount.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
• While the Knights in the Order used to be strictly chosen from the aristocracy, this is apparently no longer the case.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 June 2019
• Casely-Hayford was a scion of the African aristocracy—one who rebelled against it.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2019
• Based on their clothing, the viewer can conclude that the figures are members of the French aristocracy.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
• America might not have an aristocracy, but The Dutchess still gets some air time in Congress.
  — EW.com, 29 July 2021
• In the 18th century, miniature rings were popular among monarchs and the aristocracy, given as a token of affection by families, friends and lovers.
  — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024