Examples of the gentry in a Sentence
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Some of the gentry dislike her, but the lower orders have a great regard for her.
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Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
The annual ball served as the culminating social event of the London Season in British society, during which young women of the gentry were presented before the Queen’s royal court.
—Kristen Tauer, WWD, 27 Dec. 2024
Newsom, for all his highfalutin rhetoric about championing all Californians, just can’t quit the gentry and the insiders who have made his career.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
After running away, Heathcliff rises up through the ranks of the gentry and exacts revenge on the families — the Earnshaws and the Lintons — who kept him from his true love.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2024
Icon status Back in 1837, a craftsman named Thierry Hermès opened a shop to sell saddles, harnesses, and equestrian wares to the gentry of France.
—thehustle.co, 10 May 2024
The open secret of workers’ relationship with the gentry, in Eliot, is that their labor makes its gentility possible.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
The generals and the officer corps all belonged to the high aristocracy or the gentry and owed their status to the monarchy.
—Jonathan Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2011
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Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
The annual ball served as the culminating social event of the London Season in British society, during which young women of the gentry were presented before the Queen’s royal court.
—Kristen Tauer, WWD, 27 Dec. 2024
Newsom, for all his highfalutin rhetoric about championing all Californians, just can’t quit the gentry and the insiders who have made his career.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
After running away, Heathcliff rises up through the ranks of the gentry and exacts revenge on the families — the Earnshaws and the Lintons — who kept him from his true love.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2024
Icon status Back in 1837, a craftsman named Thierry Hermès opened a shop to sell saddles, harnesses, and equestrian wares to the gentry of France.
—thehustle.co, 10 May 2024
The open secret of workers’ relationship with the gentry, in Eliot, is that their labor makes its gentility possible.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
The generals and the officer corps all belonged to the high aristocracy or the gentry and owed their status to the monarchy.
—Jonathan Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2011
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“The gentry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20gentry. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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