Wealthy in example sentence

Adam Smith talks about 18th century America, where the prohibition against visible displays of wealth was so great, it was almost a block in the economy in New England, because even wealthy farmers could find nothing to spend their money on without incurring the displeasure of their neighbors.

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It's going to depend if they're wealthy or impoverished.

And they got fabulously wealthy in doing so.

And I asked myself the question: How is it possible that we could be so poor here in the United States, because coal is such a wealthy resource; it's so much money?

And she was next door to a very wealthy, oil-rich neighbor.

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