WEALTH in a Sentence

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They had few recollections of past wealth and splendor--and the Yankee officers were so handsome and finely dressed and so carefree.

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 Meanings and Examples of WEALTH
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wealth
 n.  the quality of profuse abundance
 n.  property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  Too many of their fathers and grandfathers had come up to wealth from the small farmer class for that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  But they were as fiercely proud in their poverty as the planters were in their wealth, and they would accept nothing that smacked of charity from their rich neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Scarlett O'Hara, with the County at her feet, a hundred slaves to do her bidding, the wealth of Tara like a wall behind her and doting parents anxious to grant any desire of her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  All her life she had heard sneers hurled at the Yankees because their pretensions to gentility were based on wealth, not breeding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  He did not have behind him a long line of ancestors of wealth, prominence and blood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  They had few recollections of past wealth and splendor--and the Yankee officers were so handsome and finely dressed and so carefree.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  To them, she not only represented wealth and elegance but the old regime, with its old names, old families, old traditions with which they wished ardently to identify themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  Mere display left her with a sense of superior distinction; but she felt an affinity to all the subtler manifestations of wealth.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  Already his wealth, and the masterly use he had made of it, were giving him an enviable prominence in the world of affairs, and placing Wall Street under obligations which only Fifth Avenue could repay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
10  From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
11  Mrs. Marshall's social position was unquestioned, and wealth showered every dainty on this child which was idolized with its brothers and sisters by its white papa.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
12  The possession of vast wealth entails cares and responsibilities, however, as poor Marija found out.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  And even if science were allowed to try, it could do little, because the majority of human beings are not yet human beings at all, but simply machines for the creating of wealth for others.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
14  Purchase wealth by her safety and satisfy your revenge with a single victim.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
15  You'll know, already, Major Heyward, that my family was both ancient and honorable," commenced the Scotsman; "though it might not altogether be endowed with that amount of wealth that should correspond with its degree.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
16  The area has a wealth of bird life.
17  Liberty and civilization are only fragments of rights wrung from the strong hands of wealth and book learning.
18  Little wealth, little care.
19  The conference discussed the fair distribution of income and wealth.
20  It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
21  The main purpose of industry is to create wealth.
22  The purpose of industry is to create wealth.
23  A degree does not give you a divine right to wealth.
24  The book provides a wealth of detail on daily life in Ancient Rome.
25  To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it more difficult, but to spend it wisely most difficult of all.
26  If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth, but, if poor, it is not so easy to conceal our poverty.
27  The country's strong economy was built on its mineral wealth.
28  There are easier ways to encourage the even spread of wealth.
29  Pleasure and pain are the wealth of life, to escape its negative, as some of the face of courage, in fact, be able to recall a blessing.
30  There is no wealth like unto knowledge, for thieves cannot steal it.