How to Use affluence in a Sentence

affluence

noun
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  • The only hint of affluence in this show is in the tiny photos of Michael Jordan’s home.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • There was affluence and there were folks struggling to get by.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Poverty and affluence, of course, come in all skin tones.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • That squeezed out a large portion of Hartford’s middle class, and the affluence that went along with it.
    — Greg Bordonaro, courant.com, 7 July 2019
  • The boy had seemed destined for a life of affluence and earthly pursuits.
    — David Pierson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In Jakarta, there is a lot of affluence, but there is also a lot of poverty.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • There were perhaps a dozen people in the matinee, all of a certain age and affluence.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Yet the sharecropper’s eighth child always saw herself as a tourist in the realm of affluence, even with cash on hand.
    — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • But China’s campaign to censor affluence has been in full swing for at least a decade.
    — Time, 23 June 2023
  • And here Lozada comes close to the core of the matter: Messing around with the notion of truth is a luxury that comes with affluence.
    — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
  • This is the result of years of peace and affluence — and a society that no longer values adulthood.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The opposite of time affluence, is, of course, time poverty.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The story will look more closely at the race and class aspects of moving from the streets of Philadelphia to the white affluence of Bel-Air.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Health is often a byproduct of affluence, and Highlands Ranch is one of the wealthiest cities in the country.
    — The Courier-Journal, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Evans presided over a ward that encompassed downtown and stretched from the affluence of Georgetown to what was then the poverty of Shaw.
    — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The satire of bourgeois affluence can seem glib and overextended.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Some are in pockets of poverty, some in enclaves of affluence.
    — Donna St. George, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Or is extreme affluence a sort of benign virus that can only hollow out the diverse life of a city.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 13 July 2018
  • These cities vary widely, from types of industry to affluence to sources of power on the local grid.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 30 July 2019
  • But to really understand the modern affluence of the area, do it by boat.
    — Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 30 June 2017
  • But to really understand the modern affluence of the area, do it by boat.
    — Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 30 June 2017
  • There are the lucky few haves who strut around in comfort and affluence, while the struggling have-nots (or used-to-haves) huddle together on the brink of oblivion.
    — Scott Christian, Esquire, 16 June 2017
  • The best protection from a hostile climate has been — and still is — affluence.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Sep. 2021
  • In a time of post-war affluence and a rising middle class, pockets of poverty were viewed as a stain on the American Dream.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 31 May 2018
  • Poor people were those shut out of middle-class affluence.
    — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • It’s about the image of affluence, not the cultural baggage.
    — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
  • There can be no greater crowning glory to your life of affluence and success than the 2021 Rolls-Royce Cullinan.
    — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Finding the right place to shoot the movie, somewhere with that same sense of insulating affluence, was paramount.
    — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Their own future affluence and well-being might well depend on it.
    — Ray Suarez, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2012
  • To some, the campus became the place where the children of American postwar affluence failed to live up to all that had been invested in them, opting instead for campus protest, radical politics, and libertinism.
    — Adrian Daub / Made By History, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024

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