How to Use moneyed in a Sentence
moneyed
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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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