Synonyms

1. aristocracy

Sentence Examples

1. Gentry stuck his fat face out of the back and waved us over.
2. The gentry who are after me are pretty bright-eyed citizens.
3. Gentry held up his pointer finger and took a drink from his cup.
4. Gentry snapped his fingers and pointed at his big puffy face.
5. I felt that I wanted enormously to have a vulgar scrap with those gentry, where I could hit out and flatten something.
6. And it must be confessed, that from the great intercourse of trade and commerce between both realms, from the continual reception of exiles which is mutual among them, and from the custom in each empire to send their young nobility and richer gentry to the other, in order to polish themselves by seeing the world, and understanding men and manners, there are few persons of distinction, or merchants, or seamen, who dwell in the maritime parts, but what can hold conversation in both tongues as I found some weeks after, when I went to pay my respects to the emperor of Blefuscu, which, in the midst of great misfortunes through the malice of my enemies, proved a very happy adventure to me, as I shall relate in its proper place.
7. By all which, instead of being discouraged, they are fifty times more violently bent upon prosecuting their schemes, driven equally on by hope and despair that as for himself, being not of an enterprising spirit, he was content to go on in the old forms, to live in the houses his ancestors had built, and act as they did in every part of life without innovation that some few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an eye of contempt and ill will, as enemies to art, ignorant, and ill commonwealthsmen, preferring their own ease and sloth before the general improvement of their country.
8. He observed, that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming.
9. Gentry twisted an old ruby ring he wore on the finger next to his shiny wedding one.
10. Gentry kept twisting that ruby ring, never the wedding band.