wellborn

Example Sentences

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To the Von Trapp-like brood he obstinately sired anyway, christened “in a batch on the terrace,” Francis was not Daddy but Fuzzy, a nickname borrowed from his wellborn father-in-law’s nickname.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022

An aristocracy was unavoidable; the United States would be ruled by the rich, the wellborn and the able.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2018

Millions loved watching the nerdy Herb Stempel and the wellborn Charles Van Doren sweat in the “isolation booth.”

From MSNBC • Sep. 16, 2015

Virginia Hall, a wellborn, multilingual Marylander who became known to the Nazis as the Limping Lady because of her artificial leg, helped French Resistance fighters wage guerrilla warfare against the occupying Germans.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2015

But to a generation of writers after Wharton that structure—the lives and mores of the rich, the wellborn, and the climbers—proved endlessly diverting.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times