How to Use aristocratic in a Sentence

aristocratic

adjective

• Through four weeks, that tier of the sport has 19 wins over its aristocratic other half, the Power 5.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• What also fascinated me is in many ways, the harlots had more agency than aristocratic women.
  — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2019
• What is the root of the haughty aristocratic conservatism the Times chooses to foist on its liberal readership twice a week?
  — David Klion, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2019
• The movie is based on the Emmy-winning hit series about the aristocratic Crawley family and their beloved servants.
  — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2019
• Dubrovnik is a cultural treasure trove, too, especially the Old Town with its baroque churches and aristocratic palaces.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2019
• These included the members of the Crawley family, a genial, aristocratic clan cursed with three daughters, and their servants.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2019
• The star of the first 100 or so pages isn’t Kaiser but Nix – dapper, polished, aristocratic and almost absurdly suave.
  — David Patrikarakos, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• His adaptation of an aristocratic predator stalking two young women is drawn from the source material and includes excerpts from Stoker’s text.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Many of these were once city palaces, converted churches, or aristocratic townhouses that still retain their elegant old-world charm but with stylishly contemporary finesse.
  — Gurdeep Loyal, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• In life, Weiss had liquidy blue eyes and an aristocratic air.
  — Alex French, Wired, 11 Mar. 2020
• For a bite of lunch, the travelers moved to Palazzo Daniele—an aristocratic mansion built in 1861 in Gagliano del Capo.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 28 May 2021
• King James I, for instance, sold off aristocratic titles to fund the war with Ireland.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2022
• The Spencers are an aristocratic family whose history goes back centuries, though the tale of the Spencer tiara does not stretch that far back.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 29 Nov. 2020
• 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
• In fact, pairing blue and brown can be handsome and often has an aristocratic air.
  — Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2021
• But for the best mix of scenery, old aristocratic romance, and wisteria charm, my choice is Como.
  — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Before her, David Cameron and his aristocratic wife, Samantha, had gone for a Scandi-style look.
  — Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• Brooksbank is the son of an accountant and grew up in British aristocratic circles.
  — Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 25 Sep. 2020
• George turns eight later this month, which, according to old school etiquette experts, is the right age for aristocratic boys to make the switch from shorts and knee socks to full-length pants.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 July 2021
• 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
• John Mueller argued that great-power war, like aristocratic dueling, had gone the way of the dodo.
  — Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• One of the women at last week’s Viennese Ball has an aristocratic title that has been in her family since the 1800s.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Suter’s Tommy Lynley is a brilliant police detective but an outsider in the force, simply by virtue of his aristocratic upbringing.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024