Example Sentences

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These toffs are still calling this drink orgeat for some reason, even though, now, it contains no barley at all.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2022

In the postwar decades, the first-person “I” was both an author’s highly distinctive ego and a proxy for a middle class no longer in competition with the capitalist toffs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021

One of the most successful efforts mounted by Grinnell and his fellow toffs was stopping the widespread slaughter of birds so that their feathers could adorn women’s hats.

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2019

It looked like nothing more than a tiff between two toffs.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2019

We might even wind up having tea and cakes at the Savoy Cafe with the nobs and toffs of Limerick.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt