How to Use the wealthy in a Sentence

the wealthy

noun

• The truth was that the commission was a front for the wealthy.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• When the wealthy Will Darcy shows up, Lizzy is prepared to hate him.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
• But the Earth might not be able to be bailed out if the wealthy continue to travel this way.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• But less than 10 miles to the northeast, in the wealthy city of San Marino, house sparrows were nowhere to be heard.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Owing to the prices, Cucinelli has long been the preserve of the wealthy and connoisseurs.
  — Jon Caramanica, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2023
• The tax increases are aimed at businesses and the wealthy and the tax cuts are aimed at the middle class.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
• In his mind, the wealthy are the real victims, preyed upon by the scum-by-birth beneath them.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• In the meantime, the strikes have taken a toll on everyone — except the wealthy few.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• In all of them, the wealthy vigilante’s defining trait is his stoicism.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• But many of these projects improve the lives of the wealthy, the upper-middle class, and the aspirational middle class.
  — Salil Tripathi, TIME, 5 June 2024
• The former wants to keep the wealthy rich, the powerful in power, the elite ruling on endless repeat.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
• In his plan, Biden is overtly declaring that the wealthy ought to shoulder a heavier tax burden.
  — Chris Megerian and Josh Boak, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
• But Democrats say the governor’s plan shifts the tax burden off the wealthy and onto those with lower incomes.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
• Indeed, the house is just a block from the wealthy resort village’s main square, Place du General de Gaulle.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• This is not the Montana where the wealthy are building ski-in and ski-out mansions or refurbishing a trout stream on a new ranch.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• If not, a trip down Death Road, to the wealthy undertaker, who cremates programs.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• Travel, shopping, and dining ground to a halt, streets emptied, and the wealthy bought one-way plane tickets out of China.
  — Dake Kang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• But one thread runs through much of the wealthy opposition to the president: taxes.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• Jeffrey Epstein’s island is alleged to have been a secret haven for the misdeeds of the wealthy and the powerful.
  — Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
• The study found that the lower someone's income, the higher their tax rate, which lets the wealthy off the hook and hampers states' ability to raise revenue.
  — Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 10 Jan. 2024
• But despite all that, life just keeps getting more unbearable — for the wealthy and the poor, for humans and for animals.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Jobs, medicine, and birthday presents are subject to the whims of the patrones, the wealthy landowners who drive cars while the regular people ride horses.
  — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
• Elsewhere around the globe, several locales have become more attractive to the wealthy over the past few years.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 May 2024
• What’s more, the wealthy men who served in Parliament considered the views and interests of less wealthy Britons secondary to their own.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• One of the community’s biggest fears is that the process will favor developers, tourists, and the wealthy.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• And the wealthy reap most of the benefits from a program that offers a tax loophole on retirement savings.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
• That means the Coastal Act should not be used as an excuse to keep California’s coastal cities exclusively for the wealthy.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Many voters criticized the plan put forward by the Chiefs as catering primarily to VIPs and the wealthy.
  — CBS News, 15 May 2024
• Yes, doing so would limit overseas attendees to the wealthy.
  — Adam Minter, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
• Strollers actually started out as a status symbol for the wealthy.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024