How to Use affluent in a Sentence

affluent

1 of 2 adjective

• His family was more affluent than most.
• The pages show a schedule of the day of the shooting and rail against White and affluent students.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• My husband grew up in the very affluent town of Greenwich, CT.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023
• The home sits just west of the Missouri-Kansas state line in the affluent Hallbrook neighborhood just south of I-435.
  — The Star, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2024
• Its plot largely revolves around conflicts between the group of greasers and more affluent teenagers in the city, known as Socs.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
• Heeding the siren call of the whiter, more affluent parts of town, the Chicken Hill Jews head 10 blocks downslope, despite the antisemitism that awaits.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Of course, that is true among people like him–affluent people working desk jobs.
  — Randi Weingarten, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• During the tour, guests will explore the affluent life of Senator John Brown and his family in the early 1800s.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
• Some affluent neighborhoods, mainly west of Rock Creek Park, have been spared from killings.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• That led to the emerging of restaurants and brothels around Palais-Royal (an affluent neighborhood in Paris).
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 May 2023
• The 337-key boutique hotel just unveiled a new package that includes an overnight stint in the city and a beachside lunch in affluent East Hampton.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 July 2023
• Some of the traits that separate affluent households from those that struggle might surprise you.
  — Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
• Working up close for affluent families, these moms saw all that their own kids were missing out on.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• The cities have somewhat recovered from the war years, and more affluent young Iraqis frequent coffee shops, go to malls and attend live concerts.
  — Joao Silva Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• But, um, Louise also grew up in, in an affluent family in Oakland.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 4 Jan. 2024
• The affluent suburb has long been prized for its quiet seclusion and grand residences.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
• But laced in between were carefully gauged questions about work and home life to assess how affluent the target is and how much could be gouged from them.
  — TIME, 21 Mar. 2024
• Hansen, the most moderate contender in the six-person race, won most precincts in East Sacramento and Land Park, which contain the city’s most affluent enclaves.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
• In the $5 billion Safe Streets and Roads for All program, most of the money doled out so far has gone to more affluent counties with lower fatality rates.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• Jennifer Dulos dropped her five children off at school and returned to her home in the quiet, affluent town of New Canaan, Connecticut.
  — Emily Wichick Hourihane, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
• The discovery has sparked uproar in Westfield, an affluent town outside New York City.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Enriquez added at the press event that the community wants the same action that police would likely take if the crimes had been committed in the city's more affluent areas.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
• The trophy mansion is nestled on three acres located high in the affluent hills above Benedict Canyon, accessed via gates and a very long driveway.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 5 May 2023
• Incidents in more affluent parts of town also tend to draw more attention.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• No schools in affluent neighborhoods east of 1300 East are proposed for study; two school board precincts have multiple schools proposed.
  — Michael Lee, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• For the nation’s more affluent families (and their children), the rules of the higher education game are clear, and the benefits are almost always worth the cost.
  — Paul Tough, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• It’s situated within one of New York’s most affluent neighborhoods and just steps from many of the city’s most iconic landmarks.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2024
• The former Kate Middleton grew up in Berkshire, an affluent county west of London.
  — Max Burman, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024
• As more affluent drivers continue to buy name-brand tires, Tire Town’s price-conscious customers have been trading down, Cates said.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
• For affluent customers, there has been this long and growing desire for real, rugged off-road vehicles.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 7 May 2023

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affluent

2 of 2 noun

• Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, argued that the affluent reaped most of the benefits of the 2017 tax overhaul.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
• Both the book and the film provide insight into the inner, overlooked - and sometimes mocked - lives of the mega-affluent.
  — Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2017
• The affluent who hold financial assets have done very well as stock prices have climbed.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• In this version, two single men are featured – one’s affluent, and the other isn’t.
  — oregonlive, 2 Jan. 2022
• The affluent are at the greatest risk of owing more for several reasons.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• Tony shrugs off criticisms that the company caters only to the affluent to the exclusion of the 99 percent.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• There’s going to be a lot of demand and temptation to set up retreats for the affluent who can afford real high prices.
  — Jeremy Lindenfeld, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2023
• Conducive to the affluent who took private transportation to the festival, the grounds took up space at the Francis S. Gabreski Airport.
  — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2023
• In the past two decades, dozens of affluent, mostly white communities have tried to secede from diverse school districts to form their own.
  — John Eligon, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2019
• But early indications are that when, rather than if, the economy falters, the high-earning affluent will share in the pain.
  — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Democrats in his affluent, Seal Beach-to-Laguna Beach district have been organizing against him for over a year.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• An unceasing invasion of mass tourism threatens to turn Paris into a vast open-air theme park for the global affluent.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2019
• Fed policy has also favored the affluent who have financial assets at the expense of savers and the middle class.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
• That means the Trump tax cuts will wind up even more heavily weighted toward the affluent than current measures forecast.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Dec. 2017
• In making these changes, working mothers would be free to advance their careers and educations in a way that only the affluent can afford to now.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 28 Mar. 2018
• The victory expands the League’s solid dominance in Italy’s affluent north.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2018
• Democrats also note that while the affluent would be winners from restoring the SALT deduction, their legislation in total would still sharply raise taxes at the very top.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
• The Tory party members who elected Johnson earlier this month fit the same profile: white, male, around 55, and middle class and affluent.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 25 July 2019
• Jones’s district is an affluent, mostly white enclave in Gwinnett County struggling to adjust to the rapid pace of demographic shifts in the region.
  — Amanda Sakuma, The Intercept, 8 May 2017
• One answer may be that the rich, including not just billionaires but the ordinary affluent of America, are not in anywhere near as much peril.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• Several recent independent studies show that the law’s climate spending will cost trillions of dollars—many multiples more than Democrats claimed—and most of it will go to the affluent.
  — Allysia Finley, wsj.com, 16 Apr. 2023
• That partly reflects the fact that the vast majority of new apartment construction has been at the high end, catering to a growing pool of affluent, professional renters in urban areas.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• Despite multiple takes claiming that the affluent will benefit most from the bill, white Americans with no college education are among some of the most supportive of the tax bill, according to the CNN poll.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2017
• Until a few years ago, online entertainment was restricted to the urban affluent.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 11 Dec. 2019
• The researchers concluded that larger tax credits for the poor and higher taxes on the affluent seemed to improve income mobility only slightly.
  — charlotteobserver, 16 Apr. 2018
• The industry could do more to appeal to the moderately affluent, who largely think of life insurers as providers of death benefits rather than savings and retirement products.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• The 17-year-old Dunbar Senior High School student and linebacker on the varsity football team wrote about the hypocrisy of a divided city, and the affluent who do not travel in the desperate neighborhoods inhabited by people like him.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
• His firm conducts ongoing surveys among affluents heavily weighted toward high-net-worth (HNW) consumers with $1+ million in wealth, making up 70% of its sample.
  — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• Democrats charged that the limited resources have brought a double standard of stricter auditing for low-income people while the affluent can hide earnings and claim dubious deductions to escape their full tax obligations.
  — Marcy Gordon, Star Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
• Does anyone believe those retirement benefits won’t be restored eventually, at least for the non-affluent?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024