newly-rich
Example Sentences
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Behold him in The Vortex, his first writing-acting success, backed by newly-rich Michael Arlen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt.
From Time Magazine Archive
The newly-rich man usually wants to make a splurge, he doesn’t want to buy a country home away off somewhere, in an out of the way nook, where people can’t see him.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Breckenridge, Gerald
In that poem the newly-rich primipilaris, Ovid's rival in love, is given a character very different from that of Vestalis.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
Here was no gaudy architecture, no flamboyant flourish of the newly-rich; rather the evidence of families long-settled in their present surroundings and long-accustomed to the luxuries of a cultured and generous existence.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
