How to Use aristocratic in a Sentence

aristocratic

adjective

• But, sir, the town’s aristocratic sort eat and drink here.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• By contrast, Davos, the aristocratic spa town in the Swiss Alps, seems like an oasis of peace.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
• The Grimaldis, one of the aristocratic families of Genoa, captured the fortress in 1297.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2022
• His voice was kind of liquid, low, aristocratic, and yet swingy.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• King James I, for instance, sold off aristocratic titles to fund the war with Ireland.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2022
• For the woodsy outing, Kate's look was outdoorsy in a Ralph Lauren, aristocratic hunting lodge kind of way.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2023
• Julien becomes the lover of the marquis’s aloof daughter, Mathilde, and rises to the highest tier of Parisian aristocratic society.
  — J. Michael Lennon, wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Pushkin was born in 1799 to an aristocratic family that could trace its lineage all the way to the twelfth century and the boyars of feudal Russia.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• In what is the high point of her year, our heroine escapes alone to the Riviera for a holiday with her literary friend Rose and Rose’s aristocratic cronies.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• Christine’s aristocratic lover cried out to the Phantom.
  — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
• In Europe at the time, mainly aristocratic men with means would have been able to pursue lifelong learning in a formal sense.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
• Maps, like landscapes, have been used for centuries in state and aristocratic portraits to denote possession of the land.
  — Taína Caragol, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
• An aristocratic rustic chalet on three acres along the Sandy River in Boring hit the market April 7 with an asking price of $1.5 million.
  — oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2022
• Pronto is a charmer and glad-hander who has tirelessly climbed the greasy pole to the summit of aristocratic society.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• The aristocratic uber-lawyer came off like a jerky antagonist back when the show debuted.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• Bows used to be gender-specific to aristocratic men, used as a status symbol worn in their hair.
  — Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
• Pike, who was nominated for her role as the film's aristocratic matriarch, dressed in a look befitting the film’s last act (for the spoiler averse: don’t Google it).
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
• Wyler's epic drama tells the story of an aristocratic Jew living in Judea who incurs the wrath of a childhood friend who has become a Roman tribune.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
• Britain was a prominent enslaver and many aristocratic families made their fortunes in the slave trade and the industries that used slaves.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• Chaucer is a merchant’s son, so he’s not brought up in a courtly, aristocratic environment.
  — Hazlitt, 18 Jan. 2023
• The Russian connection to Sanremo would flourish in the late 1800s—the court drew other well-heeled and aristocratic visitors to the city for the balmy weather and health benefits.
  — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The papers also claimed those in aristocratic circles called the middle-class Kate and Pippa the Wisteria Sisters.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
• The traditionally aristocratic district of Chamberí is set away from the more bustling parts of the city while remaining very central.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 29 July 2022
• Rome is home to many magnificent palaces built for the city’s aristocratic families.
  — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2023
• Turgenev was born in 1818 in Orel, about two hundred miles south of Moscow, in a wealthy but unhappy aristocratic family.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• His bride, Ann Charteris, was aristocratic and reckless.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
• Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond — one that is threatened by an aristocratic suitor (Jeremy Brett).
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 25 June 2022
• Ladies-in-waiting (and now companions) usually were picked from the aristocratic, titled and wealthy classes of the United Kingdom.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
• To the Greeks, or at least those aristocratic enough to qualify as Matro’s audience, this was parody.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Her role will be as an eccentric countess who is the head of a decaying aristocratic family.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024