How to Use aristocrat in a Sentence

aristocrat

noun

• Once, money had been held in the hands and lands of a few wealthy aristocrats.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• The inmates take over the town, becoming aristocrats, a prince of the church, a fancy madam.
  — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Anya enlists the aid of a dashing conman and a lovable ex-aristocrat.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2021
• Before, the artist was serving the popes and aristocrats and Medici.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Smith despised cheater aristocrats and oligarchs, by the way.
  — WIRED, 6 July 2023
• Like golf, tennis was as hidebound as the aristocrats who then played and most closely followed the sport.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Originally the calcio was played for rich aristocrats, and even popes were known to play.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 16 June 2017
• Red is also the tunic of cardinals, as well as the velvet cloak of aristocrats.
  — Selene Oliva, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2023
• The interior has the air of an aristocrat’s country home.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• Instead of cleaning their shoes, the royals and aristocrats would throw them out every few days.
  — National Geographic, 14 Oct. 2016
• The fact of the matter is that European aristocrats ate off of pewter plates, which had a high lead content.
  — Farideh Sadeghin, Saveur, 14 Sep. 2023
• Instead of cleaning their shoes, the royals and aristocrats would throw them out every few days.
  — National Geographic, 14 Oct. 2016
• The aristocrat Blanche de la Force had hoped the convent would serve as a sanctuary.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2022
• His father was a farmer on the estate of a local aristocrat, and his mother was a homemaker.
  — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2021
• Doyle is no aristocrat, but the son of a vacuum-cleaner salesman.
  — Edward Chisholm, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• These rules limited the potential pool of mates for any aristocrat.
  — Razib Khan, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
• To be a free man was to have a legal right to graze a certain number of sheep, which the aristocrats and powerful couldn’t take away from you.
  — Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
• And still, every local rogue declares him as an out-of-touch aristocrat.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• The public, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• Nor did the British Foreign Office appear to rein in the rogue aristocrat.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
• Only a virgin, preferably an aristocrat, could become the wife of a future king.
  — Jacqueline Cutler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Even the aristocrats can just barely cover up their sordid selves in gilded finery.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 9 Jan. 2017
• Alfred Giles came into the world as a sickly child of aristocrats in the suburbs of London.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Oct. 2017
• These tensions come to a head when Isa visits the Hamptons at the behest of a British aristocrat.
  — Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
• In the book, aristocrats, politicians, artists, writers and movie stars show up for cameos on the Riviera and then depart.
  — Reagan Upshaw, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
• Elgort, by contrast, moves through the film like a porcelain aristocrat.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• All of which goes to show that with a little imagination, anyone can look like a French aristocrat.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 13 June 2018
• This fantasy/action epic centers on a petty thief on skates who warms the heart of an aristocrat’s daughter.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 5 June 2021
• Lafayette, a French aristocrat, was aiding Americans in the fight against the British.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 3 July 2022
• Once, aristocrats passed wealth down through their families by bequests.
  — Daniel Markovits, Time, 12 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2024