How to Use affluence in a Sentence

affluence

noun

• There was affluence and there were folks struggling to get by.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• There was plenty and affluence over his fence.
  — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
• At the extremes, the wealthy may go to great lengths to display their affluence.
  — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
• The boy had seemed destined for a life of affluence and earthly pursuits.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Their own future affluence and well-being might well depend on it.
  — Ray Suarez, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2012
• Some are in pockets of poverty, some in enclaves of affluence.
  — Donna St. George, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2020
• There were perhaps a dozen people in the matinee, all of a certain age and affluence.
  — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 17 Jan. 2020
• The satire of bourgeois affluence can seem glib and overextended.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• There’s high taste levels, affluence.
  — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 28 Nov. 2025
• In Jakarta, there is a lot of affluence, but there is also a lot of poverty.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• No one knows whether the rise can continue, or whether our current affluence can be sustained.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2018
• But China’s campaign to censor affluence has been in full swing for at least a decade.
  — Time, 23 June 2023
• Or is extreme affluence a sort of benign virus that can only hollow out the diverse life of a city.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 13 July 2018
• Yet the sharecropper’s eighth child always saw herself as a tourist in the realm of affluence, even with cash on hand.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• The best protection from a hostile climate has been — and still is — affluence.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Sep. 2021
• That squeezed out a large portion of Hartford’s middle class, and the affluence that went along with it.
  — Greg Bordonaro, courant.com, 7 July 2019
• This is the result of years of peace and affluence — and a society that no longer values adulthood.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Mar. 2021
• These cities vary widely, from types of industry to affluence to sources of power on the local grid.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 30 July 2019
• The tone needs to be unattainable affluence or tongue-in-cheek, and Emily doesn’t know how to do either.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
• But to really understand the modern affluence of the area, do it by boat.
  — Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 30 June 2017
• At that point, all of the affluence, urbanity and privilege in the world wasn’t much good.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
• The only hint of affluence in this show is in the tiny photos of Michael Jordan’s home.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• His rise to stardom came on the heels of a surge of Black affluence in the 70s and 80s.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
• Here, Black folk cultivated their own beach town, a place of black affluence and summer joy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2021
• In a roundabout way, the country’s affluence might be contributing to its pessimism.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
• Over time, the island and its beaches have also become a symbol of Black affluence.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
• Finding the right place to shoot the movie, somewhere with that same sense of insulating affluence, was paramount.
  — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• But Fred blindly believes in Nate’s affluence.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
• The Kennedy name may be synonymous with affluence, but the family’s net worth has dwindled.
  — Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• This would raise their joint annual income by £150 and move them into affluence.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025