How to Use aristocracy in a Sentence

aristocracy

noun
  • The safest conclusion is that the top tier of America’s economic aristocracy is divided but leans liberal.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Of course the British aristocracy isn’t the sole source of eponyms.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2020
  • It’s just pages and pages and pages of the goings-on of the British aristocracy.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Spencer, who is a member of British aristocracy, is not in line to the throne.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • But in many living rooms, the aristocracy was back in vogue.
    The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • The name honors the British Isle of Jersey where the local aristocracy bought and sold slaves.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The exhibit even shines a light on how the human body was used as medicine among the British aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
    Dan Heching, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Kate is not of the aristocracy, and that was taken for granted.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2019
  • The joie de vivre was not exclusive to the aristocracy.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • And if the Spencers had a problem with the Windsors, what must the English aristocracy think of the Middletons?
    Will Frears, NYMag.com, 20 Mar. 2011
  • In 1240 the panicked aristocracy of the old princedom of Kiev abandoned the city, which was half destroyed.
    Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
  • My mother came from aristocracy, and my dad came from the South Side of Chicago.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
  • The idea that a princess would marry outside the aristocracy, at that point, was beyond.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2019
  • Among French aristocracy, the term came to mean a dinner where everyone brought food and drink to share.
    Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
  • Versailles is the hub of the French aristocracy, a great beehive dripping with honey — and bristling with stingers.
    Samuel Ashworth, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • Then Lenin’s 1917 guillotine dropped on the aristocracy like a cleaver on a sturgeon full of caviar.
    Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Meanwhile, a clear line also had to be drawn between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy.
    Henry Notaker, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The aristocracy of this city is ready to move on, daring to hope that the last four years was a fever that finally broke and life can get back to normal.
    Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
  • For centuries, the aristocracy have held court at the Palace of Westminster.
    Brad Japhe, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • Watch as the two fall in love while Diego gets reacquainted with aristocracy.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Here, black descendants of slaves can realize the kind of wealth once reserved for the white aristocracy of the Deep South.
    Brett Pulley, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2020
  • Putting yourself out there and talking about money can still be seen by much of the British aristocracy with an eye roll.
    Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • What these changes augur, in his view, is the crystallization of a caste system in the United States and the birth of a new aristocracy.
    Kanishk Tharoor, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Some people in Australia are still hanging on to that British aristocracy idea and I was brought up in a version of that.
    Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • In aristocracies across the globe, rank and title are paramount.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
  • While the Knights in the Order used to be strictly chosen from the aristocracy, this is apparently no longer the case.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 June 2019
  • Casely-Hayford was a scion of the African aristocracy—one who rebelled against it.
    Luke Leitch, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2019
  • Based on their clothing, the viewer can conclude that the figures are members of the French aristocracy.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
  • America might not have an aristocracy, but The Dutchess still gets some air time in Congress.
    EW.com, 29 July 2021
  • In the 18th century, miniature rings were popular among monarchs and the aristocracy, given as a token of affection by families, friends and lovers.
    Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024

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