How to Use nouveau riche in a Sentence

nouveau riche

noun

• The roads are better, and the nouveau riche have arrived.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2019
• The Post Oak location is where Tony’s became a go-to for the old guard, nouveau riche and A-listers, alike.
  — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2020
• And yet, a fan base that quite enjoys its nouveau riche status among the blue bloods has questions.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2017
• This is the story of the Trenchard family, who are part of the nouveau riche in London’s upper class.
  — ELLE, 30 Oct. 2021
• Blockchain snafu aside, lavish parties were thrown left and right in the best traditions of the nouveau riche.
  — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Jay Gatsby's car was symbolic of the roaring 1920s, the tangible symbol of the decadent wealth of the nouveau riche at the time.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2020
• This is a show about hustlers, businessmen, crime bosses, and the nouveau riche of the jet-set who are hungry for money and hunting for the Next Big Thing.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 26 May 2022
• Park Avenue and its stately high rises for New York City's nouveau riche covered up the eyesore.
  — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2024
• In her cartoon universe, men were often nouveau riche posers.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Actually, more have migrated to this Texas city, where the oil barons of the J.R. Ewing era are giving way to the young, caviar-bumping nouveau riche.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2023
• Hogeg’s effort to remake Beitar Jerusalem and reform its fans has become a flash point in Israel’s class wars, which pit an old-line working class against the nouveau riche.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2019
• Contrasting Joe's world — which was kind of old, deep, and very textured — Kate and Malcolm's apartment on the opposite side was more nouveau riche.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
• And for their neighbors, the nouveau riche Featheringtons?
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 28 Dec. 2020
• New restaurants and malls catering to nouveau riche Afghans riding the economic boom appeared.
  — Christina Goldbaum Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• In America, among the nouveau riche, fisherman’s sweaters have lost their yeoman roots and have come to symbolize the erasure of work itself.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
• Leaving behind its faux pas past, nouveau riche had become a status symbol.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
• Patrick is navigating these fast-changing waters in New York City with this wealth that's coming in, this nouveau riche stuff, and balancing it with the old money.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• The hype supercharged the dot-com bubble of the 90s and launched the internet age, creating today’s world where founders became instant nouveau riche on the day of their company's IPO.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2019
• Australian winemaker Treasury Wine has for years benefited from quenching the thirst of the nouveau riche in China.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2020
• The Mob Wife aesthetic has been characterized as nouveau riche, signaling new wealth and, perhaps, a misguided sense of what to do with it.
  — Aneliza Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The endeavor is largely funded by donations from the crypto nouveau riche.
  — WIRED, 2 July 2023
• The unspoken rule, now very much spoken, was created by the old money elite, hoping to elevate themselves above the nouveau riche, or newly wealthy.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2022
• Almost nine decades ago, the oil boom brought Houston an embarrassment of riches, out of which emerged a select group of nouveau riche millionaires who were a symbol of a new Texas—an even bigger Texas.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 14 Oct. 2022
• The soft life embraces the hallmarks of the nouveau riche; this aligns with Black Americans’ newfound ability to indulge in the high-end retail market in a larger capacity.
  — Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 12 Sep. 2023
• That Molly is a member of the nouveau riche jetset who lives in Bel-Air made crafting her sartorial identity all the more interesting.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2022
• For New York’s nouveau riche—a class of millionaires who had made their fortunes in emerging industrial industries like railroads and oil—the velvet curtain was firmly closed.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
• Valerie Alston-Hold, a black professor with a musically gifted, biracial son, objects when her neighbors, the nouveau riche white family the Whitmans, raze the lot next door to build a showplace.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2020
• The occasional Ferrari or Lamborghini always looks freshly delivered in the loud yet basic color schemes beloved of the Gangnam nouveau riche.
  — Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2022
• For centuries, raw goods that slaves produced in the Americas were shipped to Europe, making white people wealthier, nouveau riche, or at least consistently employed.
  — Time, 6 July 2023
• The finals will be an odd-couple matchup, between a venerable franchise from hockey’s ancestral homeland and a nouveau riche crew from sunny Florida.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024