RICH in a Sentence

Learn RICH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

384 example sentences for RICH, such as:

1. He was safe, rich, comfortable.
2. The rich never want for kindred.
3. He is rich enough who owes nothing.
4. He is rich enough who has true friends.
5. Poverty is an abnormality to rich people.

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 Meanings and Examples of RICH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rich
 a.  having a great deal of money or assets; wealthy
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And within a year of their marriage she developed the "sickliness" which had since made her notable even in a community rich in pathological instances.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The rolling foothill country of north Georgia was plowed in a million curves to keep the rich earth from washing down into the river bottoms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  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
4  "You're not a rich man and you haven't a great family," said James.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  The barbecue had reached its peak and the warm air was full of laughter and talk, the click of silver on porcelain and the rich heavy smells of roasting meats and redolent gravies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  "When Wade Hampton comes of age, he's going to be a rich young man," he said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  The butcher shops carried almost no beef and very little mutton, and that mutton cost so much only the rich could afford it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  I'm going to be a rich man when this war is over, Scarlett, because I was farsighted--pardon me, mercenary.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  They were the ones who declared it was a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight" and they had had enough of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  He was safe, rich, comfortable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Old and young, talkative and taciturn, rich planter and sallow Cracker, they all had two things in common, lice and dysentery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  Not the smart folks nor the quality folks nor the rich folks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Some day when you are rich, you can have the power to do the same to others.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  She had to have a backer and a rich one at that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (174 in 12 pages)
16  His world view revolves around a battle between rich and poor.
17  He is rich enough who has true friends.
18  My eyes popped at the sight of the rich variety of food on show.
19  The river passes through a rich variety of scenery.
20  Poverty is an abnormality to rich people.
21  The rich never want for kindred.
22  This cake is made with ten eggs, which give it a rich taste.
23  He is rich enough who owes nothing.
24  He who despises small things seldom grows rich.
25  The rich businessman gave his whole fortune to the hospital.
26  The rich uncle of whom he boasts is only a myth.
27  A university education shouldn't be the monopoly of the minority whose parents are rich.
28  A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife.
29  May you always have everything you wish for a rich life together.
30  Better poor with honour than rich with shame.