opulence

Example Sentences

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Roughly 90 percent of the UAE's population consists of foreigners and Dubai is its biggest city, with a carefully curated image for opulence and glamour.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

He warned it would paint an image of "opulence".

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

Once that toned down, she emanated, through happiness and sorrow, alike, commanding opulence.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

President Donald Trump hosted a “Great Gatsby” themed party for Halloween, complete with tuxedos, flapper dresses, jazz covers and cocktails that evoked the opulence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Roaring Twenties.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García