How to Use gentry in a Sentence

gentry

noun

• There was even a name for the outcome: The blue-collar gentry.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 27 July 2017
• The landed gentry hold hands with bankers, the petite bourgeoisie, and the nouveaux riche.
  — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021
• He was born in Ciudad Juárez in 1923 to the Mexican landed gentry.
  — Lauren Etter, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The gentry is lighter-toned and obsessed with skin bleaching, and the maji have been reduced to serfdom and slavery.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
• The landed gentry of England just have a way of making the most rugged sports seem, in a word, gentlemanly.
  — Brett Braley, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• The talk, illustrated with slides that include paintings of the time, will explore Austen’s world and the life of country gentry at that time.
  — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• The Hobbits were white, because they were based on the English middle class rural gentry.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2010
• And the tone, a kind of perky gravity that sits well on the early-20th-century British gentry, is a more awkward fit in a story set in the midst of a war over slavery.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2016
• At each resting place, the queen was entertained by the local gentry with fêtes, balls, music and feasting.
  — Judith Flanders, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• Like the gentry of old, Britain’s new class of landlords is often amateurish.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2017
• And the twins did seem determined to be identified as Southern gentry.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• Potter was in his mid-30s, and this brazen impetuousness caused much huffing among the gentry (the face tattoos, perhaps, of his time).
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2021
• Bloomberg sometimes says things that gentry liberals aren’t supposed to say out loud.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 19 Feb. 2020
• Studies over the years have indicated that the rich, unlike the leisured gentry of old, tend to work longer hours and spend less time socializing.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• The city boomed, but voters forgot the bad old days, and the combination of public unions and the gentry left took charge of the political debate.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• Tales in Blackman’s history bear out the image of sons of the gentry confronting the wild Florida frontier.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• GoPro may be going bust, while Jawbone, Nest and other members of the gentry of gadget pageantry look just about ready to stick a fork into.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2016
• Yet the distrust between the factions was made toxic by class snobbery and hatred, since the Woodvilles were a mere gentry family.
  — Andrew Roberts, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
• She was raised on a 3,000-acre cattle ranch in Santa Barbara, and in isolation since, in Francis’s view, even the local gentry was riffraff.
  — Lili Anolik, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
• John Betteridge was a silversmith who made snuff boxes and match holders for the English gentry.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2021
• The confident brother is landed gentry and wants to buy Thea's house, which abuts his property.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
• Southern gentry, though, Houston was not willing to shed blood to expand slavery.
  — Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Chron, 11 Mar. 2021
• In the nineteenth century, that image was crystallized in the bearded figure of Leo Tolstoy, who spoke out against the greed and corruption of the Russian gentry and the war in Japan.
  — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• When the Constitution was first written, women were in some ways property of the landed gentry.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• The books do for modern, monied Asians what Jane Austen did for the English landed gentry two centuries ago – only without the literary subtlety.
  — The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
• In West Virginia terms, Manchin has been a member of the gentry—corporate, political, and personal—for decades.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• Henry’s power grab angered the wealthy gentry, who launched a violent uprising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace.
  — Nuri Heckler, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
• The local gentry would marshal the peasants, laborers and tribesmen into polls that would choose each Parliament.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Navy and marine shore patrolmen were dispatched to areas on Market st. and in Logan Heights to quell any disorders which were feared when word came that the long-haired, baggy-trousered gentry were arriving here.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• Large chunks were held by corporations and by the aristocracy and gentry, often following boundaries that were relics of the land divisions and gifts made after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024