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    Use "well-off" in a sentence

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    well-off


    1. We aren't Vanderbilts, but we are well-off and intend to repay our debt, especially when it is a debt we accept for ourselves though no one else recognizes it as such


    2. Reilly, was a relatively well-off widow who must have been somewhere in her late fifties or early sixties


    3. Nevertheless in his dealing he was proud and contemptible, as usual in the persons of quite well-off position


    4. Like I said, she came from a fairly well-off and respected family


    5. It was true that most of its British and Great German citizens were haughty Elitists, but the people in the service industry who ran the shops, the restaurants and the tourist agencies were commoners who reminded her of the people back in Sutton – moderately well-off, proud to be what they were, and thankful to be a part of the moon colony


    6. It’s a shame because the offender’s parents were well-off


    7. He had originally assumed that Lord Ashburn had come from wealth, but evidently Lady Jane was the real source of prosperity and affluence in the marriage, though her husband was apparently well-off in his own rights even if they were not as substantial as her own


    8. Being a rather spoiled only child, she had no real understanding of the sacrifices less well-off families made in order to kit out their children for expensive sports


    9. And in spite of his background and rather well-off parents, Allan was kept on a tight purse-string


    10. My mom is well-off because of the insurance money we received after my dad died and because of the money she has been able to save up over her lifetime, but this is another level of well-off

    11. He knew all about her--how she had never gone in for any more husbands after her Jew, still lived in Charles Street, still, therefore, was well-off, had lately been so ill that she almost pegged out, and in a few days was going to celebrate her fiftieth birthday


    12. They do not sample the lower income populations, the less educated, the millions of latch-key children, the less well-off children, the children with parents who do not know how to raise them, the parents who are ignorant, the children who are more neglected, more vulnerable to sexual abuse, the children more inclined to be victimized from it


    13. In time, as the wealthy Victorian colonialists became less plentiful and less well-off, as the ranks of the middle classes expanded and lifestyles changed, so did the Victorian homes


    14. He must have been between fifty-five and sixty, an indifferent but not unpleasant face, balding, plump with the ever-present protruding stomach of a well-off Egyptian


    15. is practically non-existent, the only relatively well-off country still lagging in the latest technology is Greece


    16. The wealthy and well-off, without exception, made provision for a rainy day


    17. Protestant Nations worked longer and harder… and became more well-off


    18. The clientele of the Agami Palace were the young, well-off, suntanned progeny of the more sophisticated and educated classes of Egyptian society and were, even then, straining at the leash of society"s conventions


    19. Why do you think the Robber Barons had torture dungeons under their castles? To make damn sure that other people who were too happy, too well-off: ended up penniless, and screaming in pain


    20. What happens when a lower class, that is not a majority of the population becomes too well-off? What happens when they become too happy? Look at what happened to the Mormons of Illinois

    21. Look how Harlem was systematically destroyed when American blacks became too well-off


    22. Look what happened to all the black towns in America after the depression; that became too well-off


    23. Look at what happened to the Mormons in Missouri when they became too well-off


    24. Why did Massie hate her so much? She might not be as well-off as the girl whose guesthouse she was living in, but she would be pretty enough when the stylists did her up


    25. Until so many Europeans became well-off and greedy: that poor Europeans followed their examples… and the moral bar of normality was lowered to make higher levels of greed acceptable, and eventually taken for granted


    26. He is proud of being lucky enough to be rich in land, Nature, hunting, whittling, working, music, fiddling, marriage, love, etc… while all other humans are not as well-off , or as lucky as he is


    27. It's appearance was even more garish and well-off than Thyana's had been


    28. And while it is going to be interesting to watch efforts to develop literature or philosophy programs that offer economic value of any kind, in the confines of well-off academic institutions, it will not be that necessary


    29. He was an honest man, and well-off as things were reckoned in Bree; but thirty silver pennies was a sore blow to him, and being cheated by Bill Ferny made it harder to bear


    30. If well-off retirees can receive a medical procedure overseas for substantially less than these limits, then they are likely to consider it

    31. She was hired as a nanny for a well-off couple, Margaret and John “Jack” Cohen, on the outskirts of town


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    Synonyms for "well-off"

    solvent independent affluent wealthy rich well-to-do