GENTRY in a Sentence

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29 example sentences for GENTRY, such as:

1. Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.
2. He thought very little of anybody, simples or gentry.
3. Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
4. At the porch he met two of the landed gentry, one of whom he knew.
5. Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked.

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 Meanings and Examples of GENTRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gentry
 n.  the most powerful members of society
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  Placing one foot upon the step by which the gentry mounted, she covered the said step with mud, and then, ascending higher, attained the desired position beside the coachman.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  Evidently he was of opinion that, since the gentry declined to receive the visitor, the latter must certainly be a rogue.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
3  Your sort, you gentry, can never get beyond refined submission or refined indignation, and that's no good.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  The good he has done to everybody here, from his peasants up to the gentry, is incalculable.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
5  After Russian country dances and chorus dances, Pelageya Danilovna made the serfs and gentry join in one large circle: a ring, a string, and a silver ruble were fetched and they all played games together.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI
6  In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
7  The chief magnates sat on high-backed chairs at a large table under the portrait of the Emperor, but most of the gentry were strolling about the room.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
8  The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolensk gentry had done.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXIII
9  At the porch he met two of the landed gentry, one of whom he knew.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
10  An enormous crowd of factory hands, house serfs, and peasants, with whom some officials, seminarists, and gentry were mingled, had gone early that morning to the Three Hills.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XV
11  There now, the gentry and merchants have gone away and left us to perish.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIII
12  Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VIII
13  He thought very little of anybody, simples or gentry.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
14  Ralph, a Jew, got up to look the very spit and image of the landed gentry, supplied from directing City companies--that was certain--tons of money; and they had no child.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
15  So none of them would walk by the lily pool at night, only now when the sun shone and the gentry still sat at table.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
Example Sentence:
1  Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
2  Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.
3  The local gentry did not welcome the visits of the summer tourists and tried to ignore their presence in the community.