How to Use privileged in a Sentence

privileged

adjective

• She had privileged access to the files.
• The town attracts people who are wealthy and privileged.
• He comes from a very privileged background.
• Only the privileged few can become members of the club.
• The President's adviser has a privileged position of trust.
• Yes, a group of privileged white men are going to save the world.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 9 Mar. 2023
• Right now, the Senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• The book’s big takeaway is the chasm separating the privileged and the poor.
  — Carol Memmott, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Yet the rich and privileged fled the drafting of Russian bodies for Ukraine.
  — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
• Juliet came from a privileged background and had moved around the world.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• But where does a band in this privileged position go from there?
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2023
• Santos is the man in the crewneck sweater and the sport jacket: entitled, privileged.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
• Seems like a tacky money grab for a privileged daughter.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 21 July 2023
• It had been assumed that, because of the privileged status of Rules, the people who got the job would police themselves.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
• Keplinger didn't have the common touch and might be seen as rather intellectual and privileged and aloof and out of touch.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2024
• But its revival is divisive for the city’s less privileged, who argue that they have been pushed out of their homes.
  — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
• Boebert had used what is called a privileged resolution to force the vote.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• Cara sees her as a poseur(*) and a privileged rich girl whose lifestyle is funded by her slumlord parents.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
• Such a privileged inconvenience is further scored by the screams of a woman right outside the shop.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• Throughout the book, Guns skewers the obliviousness of the privileged.
  — Jon Michaud, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• In 1970 Prabowo joined the military, which had a privileged place under Suharto’s rule.
  — Ben Bland, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
• For those who can’t unplug, small steps help Of course, only the most privileged among us can afford to take some time to properly rest.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• For those privileged enough to indulge, buying things became a love language of sorts.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• Benefits that enrich both the privileged and the marginalized.
  — Marcus Collins, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Too many millions have been spent on underutilized bike lanes that cater to a small but privileged group of people.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• The resolution is privileged, meaning that when Torres calls for a vote, a vote has to be held within 48 hours.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 18 July 2023
• The privileged nature of the measure forced a vote on it within two legislative days, giving the House until Thursday to act on it.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2023
• The high-profile homicide exposed a lifestyle commonly shared among the young and indulgent in the city’s privileged class.
  — Albert Samaha, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
• But those privileged enough to access state-of-the-art devices can outsource some of their decision-making to machines.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 5 July 2023
• These are privileged suburban kids…why are you guys so angry?
  — William Earl, Variety, 20 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024