well-to-do

Example Sentences

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In the early days, such caps would affect only a small number of well-to-do retirees.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

The split widens when a labor strike becomes an armed revolt, with Jacir gamely tracking the hardening or shifting loyalties of both her peasant and well-to-do characters.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Nob Hill had a reputation as a relatively well-to-do enclave, but here, in its outer reaches, the vacancies were becoming hard to ignore.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

I met Volodymyr Zelensky in a conference room inside the heavily-guarded government enclave in a well-to-do corner of central Kyiv.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

The minority of blacks who lived in Dube, a posh section of the otherwise squalid Soweto also known as Beverly Hills, were a well-to-do elite.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane