How to Use well-to-do in a Sentence

well-to-do

adjective
  • The whiter, more well-to-do Rochester Hills, where the family moved, in 1969, in the wake of the riots in Detroit, proved easy to loathe.
    — Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Johnson and his bandmates were free Black men; the audience was white and well-to-do.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Cheol-woong, played by Choo Young-woo, is the only son of a well-to-do family.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The princess is the oldest of three children brought up in a well-to-do neighborhood in Berkshire, west of London.
    — arkansasonline.com, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Huppert was born into a well-to-do family in Paris in 1953.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The well-to-do, on the other hand, are more likely to be worrying about their jobs and stock portfolios.
    — Heard Editors, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Francis was born around 1181, in Assisi in central Italy, the son of a well-to-do merchant named Pietro di Bernardone.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • And what fun to see Felix — now a successful artist — looking so suave and well-to-do after all the drama of his 20s!
    — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 30 June 2024
  • In the reboot, Constance, now a well-to-do widow, owns the catering company.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Like coming home to one’s well-to-do grandparents for dinner.
    — Christian Martinez, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2024
  • These parents were portrayed as well-to-do and well-organized.
    — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • It was brought to the region by well-to-do British and American expats, and took hold only among local elites.
    — Stefan Szymanski, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • The novel’s setting is a well-to-do Kansas City suburb, and its events transpire from the mid-Twenties to the early Forties.
    — Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • His mother was German, his father was Spanish and the family was well-to-do.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Was the Met this starved for money to end up restricting access to less well-to-do sections of our society?
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • An estate sale is, of course, often associated with the well-to-do.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • His wife, Hosun, along with just about everyone else, urged Kim to go back to work for his father and live the well-to-do life of housekeepers and chauffeurs.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • In some ways, the well-to-do class isn’t so different from the electorate, as polls have shown Mr. Trump leading in the majority of battleground states.
    — Rob Copeland, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • Shortly after her parents divorced in 1978, her father met Suzan, a well-to-do divorcee and mother of two.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
  • With Daniel, Alexis can be honest about the pressure her well-to-do parents have put on her to follow in their footsteps and become a renowned surgeon.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Stepping through the doors of Kasuri might shock the average tourist visiting Hudson, but also inspire the enclave or well-to-do artists in the area.
    — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Yamazaki’s mother was the daughter of a well-to-do wholesale produce broker.
    — John McMurtrie, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • This would be an expensive deficit-expanding tax cut for folks in blue states that are relatively well-to-do.
    — Kate Murphy, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Chef Chris Bianco’s father in 1970 painted a portrait of a well-to-do Manhattan woman.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • However, arguably the biggest thing to come from the series, which plumbs the bad behavior of well-to-do travelers, may be the reemergence of Jennifer Coolidge.
    — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 5 June 2023
  • The first buyers are likely to be well-to-do technology savants and collectors, Mr. Rose said.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Location Provocateur Berlin is on the west side of the well-to-do Wilmersdorf-Charlottenburg district.
    — Kate Bettes, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2024
  • Sharing the screen with her then-husband Tom Cruise, the pair played a well-to-do New York married couple in the midst of a conflict in their relationship, a plot that feels prescient in relation to their breakup in 2001.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 20 July 2024
  • In the past, a well-to-do family arrives for vacation on Saint X, a Caribbean island loosely based on Aruba.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • At the bottom of the Hollywood Hills, the lobby of the hotel has turned into an evacuation zone for some of Los Angeles’ most well-to-do residents.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025

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