moneyed

Example Sentences

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Brad Reese spent his early childhood in Hershey, Pa. Immediately after the sale, his newly moneyed parents moved the family to Minneapolis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

But they weren’t moneyed enough to afford an apartment of their own, so they lived for long stretches with her parents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

It's Michaela, not Peter, who holds the community’s moneyed congregation in the palm of her hand.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

Brentwood is a land of canyons, from moneyed Mandeville Canyon to Harris’ Kenter Canyon.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

When he was younger, he had admired people with moneyed childhoods and foreign accents, but he had come to sense an unvoiced yearning in them, a sad search for something they could never find.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie