How to Use affluent in a Sentence

affluent

1 of 2 adjective

• His family was more affluent than most.
• This affluent and famous man has to be out with the rest of us.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
• Moscow was and still is a very affluent city.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
• Uh, and it's become a lot more affluent.
  — Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
• Agnes and her peers are raised in affluent households and groomed to be married off to men twice (or more) their age.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
• Of course, that is true among people like him–affluent people working desk jobs.
  — Randi Weingarten, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• This contrasts with the affluent northwest suburbs in so many ways.
  — Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
• Both take place among an affluent milieu of anxious mothers.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
• The wine market has been buoyed by affluent buyers willing to pay more per bottle.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 15 May 2026
• Working up close for affluent families, these moms saw all that their own kids were missing out on.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Its location in one of the state’s most affluent coastal cities is one notable aspect.
  — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026
• Even the world’s most affluent people sometimes need a mortgage.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Like the novel it's based on, the shows follows an affluent teen who goes missing after his friend dies.
  — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
• Raised in Guatemala, my parents were pulled out of school at a young age to work for affluent families.
  — Ohanna Carrascoza, CNBC, 1 May 2026
• Other affluent towns have sought out similar changes in the past — with mixed results.
  — Calmatters, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
• When growth slows, even affluent societies begin to fray.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 25 Dec. 2025
• Throughout the novel, Mueenuddin weaves through the lives of the affluent and those who work for them.
  — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
• The affluent desert area features homes on expansive lots.
  — Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 3 Feb. 2026
• This western side of the city is more opulent, while the east side, near the airport, and the south side, are less affluent.
  — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
• These Black women aren’t affluent.
  — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
• The practice is more common among more affluent families and done more often with boys.
  — Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
• The Skakels were not merely affluent neighbors.
  — Kate Casey, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2026
• Crowds are getting older, more affluent.
  — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
• The affluent suburb has long been prized for its quiet seclusion and grand residences.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
• Some of the traits that separate affluent households from those that struggle might surprise you.
  — Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
• The milk-bath nail trend gets an affluent glow-up with this almost-bare nail, which is simple and understated.
  — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
• Two more burglaries in this same affluent Cincinnati suburb would soon take place on the same day.
  — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2025
• Incidents in more affluent parts of town also tend to draw more attention.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• My husband grew up in the very affluent town of Greenwich, CT.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023

affluent

2 of 2 noun

• The affluent who hold financial assets have done very well as stock prices have climbed.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• The fact that my book, in part, tracks the lives of the affluent probably adds to that perception.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Until a few years ago, online entertainment was restricted to the urban affluent.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 11 Dec. 2019
• Does anyone believe those retirement benefits won’t be restored eventually, at least for the non-affluent?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2018
• 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
• The victory expands the League’s solid dominance in Italy’s affluent north.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Johannesburg's affluent typically live in large free-standing houses with rolling gardens and swimming pools behind walls with electric fences.
  — Antony Sguazzin, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In theory, the affluent may live on one of these mini-campuses without leaving very often, certainly without engaging with the messiness of actual city life.
  — Curbed, 10 Jan. 2023
• But ProPublica and other news outlets found that investments often went to develop projects that benefit the affluent.
  — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• In tandem with the increasing standards of living that were beginning to cement a sense of personal privacy, especially among the affluent, came tighter and tighter spaces that commingled our noises.
  — Curbed, 7 Aug. 2023
• In fact, even as millions of jobs vanish, the president has talked about cutting payroll taxes and reducing the capital gains rate, another move that would disproportionately benefit the affluent.
  — Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• Amazon is trying to broaden its appeal beyond the mass affluent by introducing monthly payment plans and discounts for people on government assistance, but there is still room for competition on the lower end of the market.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018