How to Use riches in a Sentence

riches

plural noun
  • Give all the riches to the poor, let the poor become rich.
    Reed Dunlea, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2021
  • This one did, with the backing of riches the likes of which golf has never seen.
    Doug Ferguson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2022
  • And riches were cool in 1976: The Eagles embraced, as the phrase goes, the lifestyle.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The site’s legendary sale is a surplus of stylish riches, all up to 50% off.
    Jake Smith, Glamour, 24 May 2022
  • Alone among our founders, his is a riches-to-rags story.
    Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Long life is in her right hand in her left hand are riches and honor.
    Georgia Slater and Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Murray's dream of NFL success and the vast riches that come with it had come true.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2022
  • Goldman Sachs, with all of its riches, could have bought just about any URL.
    New York Times, 31 July 2021
  • Pioneers in search of riches have long flocked to this area.
    Adam Elmahrek, Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Surround yourself with loved ones and close friends to enjoy the true riches of life.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2021
  • For those artists, the sudden riches can be life-rattling.
    New York Times, 12 May 2021
  • But 2022 still held all kind of riches for people who love movies: big ones, small ones, true ones, snail ones.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022
  • End the year strong—and with an embarrassment of riches!
    The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But riches and ocean views can’t quite mask the devastating effects of the past.
    Washington Post, 27 May 2021
  • Markle, even with riches our children don’t have, did not want to live anymore.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Some guys play the game to achieve riches and notoriety.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The middle of five children, Frances, like the characters in some of her tales, had a kind of rags-to-riches story.
    Sarah Schutte, National Review, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Americans love a rags-to-riches story that inspires a reach for the stars.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 24 Oct. 2022
  • And so begins the global sprint to acquire the keys that, if legends are true, could unlock a road to riches.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The Khronos Group, falls apart as the distant promise of metaverse riches moves closer.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 22 June 2022
  • There are green, yellow, and black stripes on the side borders, the abundant life in Africa; the riches of Africa; and of course, the regality of African skin.
    Essence, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The sales of copies of a study might not seem like a gateway to riches, but the reprint purchases can add up to more than $2 million each.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2022
  • And none is more powerful than the rags-to-riches tale of Rich Strike, who stunned the Kentucky Derby field at 81-1 with an epic late surge.
    Stephen Edelson, USA TODAY, 7 June 2022
  • The Big Band may run for many seasons, pushing new bands into riches.
    Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • Wild has discovered the wreck of La Fortuna, a ship that went down in 1804 loaded with riches from the New World.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2022
  • At stake are riches that few could ever spend in a normal lifetime.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • The singer starred in the Prime Video adaptation of Cinderella as the titular rags-to-riches princess in the beloved fairytale.
    Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Custom also holds that for the promises of riches in the coming year, a body needs to consume at least a fork-full or two of some sort of greens.
    al, 31 Dec. 2021
  • But there's a caveat: His rags-to-riches story might not actually be true.
    Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Warner can relate to this rags-to-riches storybook theme.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023

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