well-to-do

How To Use well-to-do In A Sentence

• Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
• The story was that of a little girl who was born in a well-to-do family and was a top performer in her studies.
• They wore the standard uniform of the well-to-do American out of office hours.
• He looked more and more like a well-to-do old English sparrow, and chippered faster and faster. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
• In contrast, the lives of girls in well-to-do families were often very sheltered.
• St. Thomas's Day, 21st December, is still at Otterbourne held as the day for "gooding," when each poor house-mother can demand sixpence from the well-to-do towards her Christmas dinner. John Keble's Parishes
• The 1999 figures showed well-to-do areas got four times as much in grants as their residents spent on tickets. The Sun
• Many of the pieces contain that strange instrument, the harmonium - so unfashionable now, but an item in many well-to-do 19 th-century homes.
• Ethel Mellor was the daughter of a well-to-do check-weighman. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
• He serves as the amateur therapist of choice to his well-to-do clients, hearing all about their blowouts in the course of their blowouts, and I want to find out why.