well-to-do

Example Sentences

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A well-to-do worker in finance, he is ready to spread a lot of money around, and make some dodgy connections, to find her.

From Los Angeles Times

Others are looking in total disbelief at the police cordon in this very well-to-do Swiss Alpine resort.

From BBC

But the country still has millions of well-to-do shoppers who can afford to splurge on, say, a $6 package of Sam’s Club-exclusive Oreos, with thinner cookies and more cream.

From The Wall Street Journal

And, really, the well-to-do of California and the rest of the world would never go and pick their own strawberries.

From Los Angeles Times

In fact, over the last 50-plus years, a gilded gallery of the well-to-do have tried and spectacularly failed.

From Los Angeles Times