aristocratic

Example Sentences

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David embraced aristocratic country life and distrusted outsiders; Sydney enjoyed London, music and company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Severus’ family was wealthy and aristocratic: They could afford to educate him expensively and expected him to pursue a career in public life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The wider family, whose aristocratic ancestors can be traced to Norman times, had members belonging to various Christian denominations and at least one who was Jewish during Victorian times.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

The afterglow of aristocratic grace, the poet noted, was obscured by the “rising tide of democracy, which invades and levels all things.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The portrait, in the style of Gainsborough, showed an aristocratic family—parents, two teenage girls and an infant, all thin-lipped, and pale as ghouls—posed before a vaguely Tuscan landscape.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan