How to Use aristocratic in a Sentence

aristocratic

adjective

• In life, Weiss had liquidy blue eyes and an aristocratic air.
  — Alex French, Wired, 11 Mar. 2020
• Juliana, though, is eager to escape the tedium of aristocratic country life.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
• Everyone present is dressed in the aristocratic drag of old money—bespoke suiting, chunky gold baubles—right up to the tall, teased hairstyles on the handsome older women.
  — Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• Striking women had some characteristic that made them stand out: bountiful lips, an aristocratic nose, a glorious poitrine.
  — National Geographic, 7 Jan. 2020
• One of the women at last week’s Viennese Ball has an aristocratic title that has been in her family since the 1800s.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• The town’s tanneries were notoriously foul-smelling, so leather-makers, to avoid offending the noses of aristocratic customers, began to infuse their wares with floral essences.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• But, sir, the town’s aristocratic sort eat and drink here.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• By contrast, Davos, the aristocratic spa town in the Swiss Alps, seems like an oasis of peace.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
• The Grimaldis, one of the aristocratic families of Genoa, captured the fortress in 1297.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2022
• His voice was kind of liquid, low, aristocratic, and yet swingy.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• For a bite of lunch, the travelers moved to Palazzo Daniele—an aristocratic mansion built in 1861 in Gagliano del Capo.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 28 May 2021
• King James I, for instance, sold off aristocratic titles to fund the war with Ireland.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2022
• The Spencers are an aristocratic family whose history goes back centuries, though the tale of the Spencer tiara does not stretch that far back.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 29 Nov. 2020
• For the woodsy outing, Kate's look was outdoorsy in a Ralph Lauren, aristocratic hunting lodge kind of way.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2023
• In fact, pairing blue and brown can be handsome and often has an aristocratic air.
  — Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2021
• But for the best mix of scenery, old aristocratic romance, and wisteria charm, my choice is Como.
  — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Before her, David Cameron and his aristocratic wife, Samantha, had gone for a Scandi-style look.
  — Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• Brooksbank is the son of an accountant and grew up in British aristocratic circles.
  — Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 25 Sep. 2020
• George turns eight later this month, which, according to old school etiquette experts, is the right age for aristocratic boys to make the switch from shorts and knee socks to full-length pants.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 July 2021
• Julien becomes the lover of the marquis’s aloof daughter, Mathilde, and rises to the highest tier of Parisian aristocratic society.
  — J. Michael Lennon, wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• John Mueller argued that great-power war, like aristocratic dueling, had gone the way of the dodo.
  — Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• Pushkin was born in 1799 to an aristocratic family that could trace its lineage all the way to the twelfth century and the boyars of feudal Russia.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• In what is the high point of her year, our heroine escapes alone to the Riviera for a holiday with her literary friend Rose and Rose’s aristocratic cronies.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• Christine’s aristocratic lover cried out to the Phantom.
  — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
• In Europe at the time, mainly aristocratic men with means would have been able to pursue lifelong learning in a formal sense.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
• Maps, like landscapes, have been used for centuries in state and aristocratic portraits to denote possession of the land.
  — Taína Caragol, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
• An aristocratic rustic chalet on three acres along the Sandy River in Boring hit the market April 7 with an asking price of $1.5 million.
  — oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2022
• Pronto is a charmer and glad-hander who has tirelessly climbed the greasy pole to the summit of aristocratic society.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• There remained an aristocratic strain within the publishing elite that did not want this change.
  — Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
• Elsewhere, male writers stick their knives into the dashing, aristocratic, pro-Soviet Alexander Cockburn.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024