well-to-do

Example Sentences

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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

She would sweep aboard, her long black skirts in one hand, in the other a list of the well-to-do ladies who were about to become patronesses of the new venture.

From Literature

That means the less well-to-do schools are much, much worse.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Shunsuke is from a well-to-do family, so I wanted to give him a vibrant, youthful and also a cute look,” notes Hibino.

From Los Angeles Times

Lindblad was born and grew up in well-to-do Virginia Water in Surrey, and is the first to acknowledge that he has been helped on his way by the relative comfort of his background.

From BBC