How to Use wealthy in a Sentence

wealthy

adjective

• He is a wealthy entrepreneur.
• Pinochet died wealthy and free of his crimes, but the pain is eternal for the people.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• So, Sandy takes advantage of wealthy men at her casino, and then Clement robs them.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
• Putting their nose to the grindstone every day rather than the really wealthy people.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
• The family is usually in the top three of Forbes' wealthiest people in the world lists.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2024
• The pandemic prompted wealthy financiers to flock here for the low taxes and good weather.
  — Michael Smith, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
• Both Dolan and Moreno, unlike LaRose, are extremely wealthy.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• The move is a sign that Hermès thinks wealthy Hong Kongers will help boost its business in 2024, as the luxury market in China takes a dip.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024
• Early in the new season of Dark Winds, a wealthy woman hires Jim Chee to help recover a lockbox that was stolen from her home.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2023
• Luxury home prices are up, and wealthy buyers are paying in cash to avoid sky-high mortgage rates.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
• When a wealthy man pays him to venture to Italy and persuade his son to come home, deceit, fraud, and murder quickly follow.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
• Range Rovers tend to be more expensive than Land Rovers and they are all targeted at wealthy buyers.
  — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
• Today, as in eras past, a lot of wealthy men fancy themselves explorers.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
• The flagship 12-cylinder coupes that shape the brand’s image are even more exclusive and tend to spend most of their lives parked in wealthy car collectors’ garages.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Bettencourt Meyers keeps her life private, shunning the glitzy social life sought by many the world’s wealthy.
  — Tara Patel, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• This is largely due to the fact that air travel began as a luxury; a way for wealthy people to travel and mark the occasion in style.
  — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2023
• Several members of the group have also called out wealthy churches that have so far done little to assist.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
• That’s a drawback in the Chinese market, where wealthy customers often prefer to be chauffeured.
  — William Wilkes, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2023
• Culture war fights take hold In wealthy Loudoun County, Virginia, parents faced threats in a battle over equity in schools.
  — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Some of the strongest opposition has come from the region’s wealthiest and Whitest enclaves.
  — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
• Steven is still working to save money for Princeton and has had a very different life than Shayla's wealthy upbringing.
  — Alexandra Schneider, Seventeen, 16 July 2023
• The film chronicles the true story of the mass murders of wealthy Osage people in Oklahoma by white settlers wanting to obtain their land rights.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
• Nonetheless, Shook, who represents a wealthy district in north Atlanta, supports the project.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2023
• This is where her wealthy best friend Selby (Jack Farthing), who is just finishing up a prison stint when the show begins, comes in—though their relationship comes with some strings.
  — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2023
• For years, Adrian Cheng had all the trappings of a third-generation scion preparing to lead one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest clans into a new era.
  — Shawna Kwan, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
• Whereas one woman was poor, but accepting of her lot, the other was wealthy and always complaining.
  — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
• Throughout that year, museum-goers — young and old, wealthy or not — waited in a queue with an average wait time of two hours to get up close and personal with the toilet.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• Once, his delivery guy brought him a racket signed by Roger Federer that had been recovered from a wealthy customer’s garage.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• In pushing back on the zoo’s request for a levy increase, the commissioners had to stand up to an organization backed by Cincinnati’s wealthy class.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2023
• Newly arrived Akio is an angry and ambitious 18-year-old with a dream of becoming wealthy and famous.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024