How to Use moneyed in a Sentence

moneyed

adjective
  • And today a Beaver on floats is the latest toy of the moneyed set, sort of a Humvee of the air.
    Lionel Atwill, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Much of the land around the town was stolen by moneyed land-grabbers (called grilleros).
    Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Bonfire can be seen as a book about two kinds of elite: the moneyed and the cultured.
    Janan Ganesh, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2017
  • In the South, it was enjoyed by the moneyed crowd equipped with silver julep cups.
    Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
  • But the tax is new, and many say a moneyed migration could be nigh.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Allow two hours to cut across the tip of Florida to the west coast, and the hushed, moneyed enclave of Naples.
    Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2020
  • Wasn’t the senator dispirited to have to suit back up and press the moneyed flesh?
    New York Times, 18 June 2021
  • And the smallest percentage, 14%, lived in the less-moneyed center of town.
    Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2022
  • That hasn’t stopped swarms of interest in the place, one of too few places to eat in a moneyed neighborhood.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And there certainly are things that can be done now to help make that happen for the most moneyed among us.
    Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Mar-a-Lago is now a membership club for the moneyed elites.
    Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The suits are moneyed, smart, talented, and will also put up a good fight.
    Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Holmes and Evans went to the desert oasis for moneyed bohemians.
    Amy Chozick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • Connie chose the pace of city life and was a fixture in the moneyed circles of Washington and New York.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 May 2023
  • Desmond, on the other hand, retains the respect of most of the moneyed homeowners here.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2022
  • But the Yost campaign is backing up its claims with moneyed ad buys, six months before voters go to the polls.
    Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • City leaders welcomed this kind of moneyed and house-proud white person, who would buy a parcel and work in one of L.A.
    Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The smaller ships cater to a moneyed crowd; the big ships bring the cost of a cruise within reach of middle-income and working-class people.
    Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2021
  • That campaign rewrote the rules for doing business in China and restored a sense of fear (of jail) among party cadres and the moneyed class.
    Graham T. Allison, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Other alleys are blocked by the blast walls and watchtowers that attend the moneyed elite.
    Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2020
  • In federal races the moneyed candidate wins more than 90 percent of the time.
    Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
  • Others are being priced out of the market or passed over in favor of more moneyed buyers.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
  • On this side are the miners’ flimsy shacks, on the other the moneyed buildings with proper walls, glass windows.
    New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The 43-year-old joined the effort to recruit other moneyed families to support a wealth tax in the June letter.
    Josh Boak, The Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This time around, Scott finds herself in the role of the moneyed spouse—and her relationship with Jewett was much shorter.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Born into a moneyed family, Stettheimer did not need or want to sell her art.
    New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
  • Any moneyed person who isn't in Manuel Noriega's phone book or the music business would look at home in this car.
    William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 30 June 2023
  • Gloria Vanderbilt, who died earlier this week at the age of 95, was so much more than her moneyed name.
    Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
  • Something about artists making decorations for the moneyed class.
    Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The fourth-generation Tysons run in the same social circles as movie stars and fellow moneyed millennials, Fortune learned.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2024

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