How to Use well-connected in a Sentence

well-connected

adjective
  • But these less wealthy and well-connected states can still get drones.
    Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • For the rich and well-connected, the process may not be difficult, Bhandari said.
    Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
  • The Murdaughs were among the most wealthy and well-connected families in the region.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The Greenbrier Resort – where the Browns are holding their first days of training camp this week – has long been a retreat for the wealthy and well-connected.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 26 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, the air above Port-au-Prince buzzes constantly with private flights for diplomats and the well-connected.
    Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Couch prides herself on being well-respected and well-connected with her finger on the pulse of the culture.
    Goldie Chan, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The goal was to reach women who were inheriting land from spouses or parents and were not well-connected or prepared and didn’t know what to do.
    Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 11 May 2023
  • But as the well-heeled and well-connected gather for the pageantry, thousands will also protest the coronation—and its exorbitant cost.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 4 May 2023
  • That a five-by-one-metre (16-by-three-feet) stone made the trip across much of the length of the UK suggests that the British isles were home to a highly organised and well-connected society at the time, the researchers said.
    Bydaniel Lawler and Afp, Fortune Europe, 15 Aug. 2024
  • By car: Anyone can get to Granada by car as well, as the city is well-connected to major highways traveling to and from Madrid, Seville, and other coastal cities.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2024
  • Both are well-connected to the U.S., have a wide range of hotel and resort styles, offer plenty of activities, and feature among the best restaurants in the country.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Those who could smuggle Western goods in those years were mostly the country’s powerful and well-connected élite.
    Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Sunak said that would free $44 billion for new road and rail projects across the Midlands and North, regions that are less affluent and less well-connected than southern England.
    Jill Lawless The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Tokyo is super well-connected, and most luxury hotels are within a few blocks of a station.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Concern that bedbugs might spread to London was, of course, amplified by the fact that the two cities are well-connected by short and inexpensive train services.
    Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Adopt an approach to automation that will enable you to improve your AI agents over time and partners who are experienced in and well-connected to the needs of your users.
    Alex Zekoff, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Despite the risks, the wealthy and well-connected continue to carve their spots in the hills, giving rise to unchecked development that endangers vital water supplies for the city.
    David McKenzie, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Each of them has a comprehensive and well-connected transit network.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
  • Jacobs is a powerful and well-connected figure in LA politics and was part of Garcetti’s inner circle.
    Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Presley pledged to clean up government corruption, pointing to welfare money that was spent on pet projects for the wealthy and well-connected rather than aid for some of the poorest people in one of the poorest states in the nation.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The trust gap with farmers has continued even though some federal officials are well-connected to the dairy industry.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 26 June 2024
  • Sleeper trains and overnight ferry services connect the major urban centers in the south to other mainland European cities, and the whole country is well-connected by train.
    Kassondra Cloos, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Study after study finds that a vast majority of these credits go to a relatively few large and well-connected companies.
    Veronique De Rugy, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2024
  • How well-connected an investor is and their level of expertise are also factors to consider.
    Guy Yehiav, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The team was well-connected: Marset’s top legal adviser, Alejandro Balbi, was the president of Nacional, one of the country’s most famous soccer clubs.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • While Paris’s public transport system is well-connected and can handle the usual stream of tourists, this year presents a more serious challenge—and its aging infrastructure will only add to the strain.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 29 May 2024
  • The Central Valley’s more than 8 million acres of irrigated farmland are well-connected to canals and can serve as spreading grounds, while allowing for farming to continue, Dahlke said.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Then there was me, who, instead of spending the first hours of the festival at parties or cozying up to the well-connected, was pecking away at my keyboard in an Airbnb, sweating in a chair from a combination of the 50% humidity and adrenaline.
    Kylie Robison, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Tom is not particularly handsome, clever or well-connected.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The event featured many devout and well-connected social conservatives who can play a decisive role in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Republican caucuses in January.
    Will Weissert and Thomas Beaumont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023

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