Sentence examples for a comfortable background from inspiring English sources

He came from a comfortable background, but by this stage his finances were running low.

Like William Morris, his contemporary and fellow socialist, Carpenter came from a comfortable background.

Roger Federer comes from a comfortable background in Switzerland, Rafael Nadal from an affluent family in Majorca.

She came from a comfortable background that involved ponies and good schools, and graduated from recreational drugs to crack under the influence of an early boyfriend.

The reality was that I come from a comfortable background, but not with reserves of cash on hand for an emergency like this".

She came from a comfortable background, sure, was known as a flirt and a belle in Springfield and Lexington, Kentucky, where she'd grown up.

It can be a lonely, painful and difficult process to rise out of a less comfortable background and into a hugely competitive field, and every moment of help along the way is of great value.

Mr. Cornish, 42, a British television and radio comedian, grew up in the south London neighborhood of Brixton but said he came from a "pretty comfortable background".

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It would be hard to think of three more different characters, and though Bannister and the Australian Landy shared a similarly secure, comfortable background, the very fact of Landy's being so many thousands of miles away from Europe or the United States, the two great centers of athletics, made his experience and approach necessarily unique.

MaryAnne Stevens, curator of the RA exhibition, says Hugo and Manet reflected Paris's past and future: "Manet was always a republican, despite his comfortable background, because he moved in a very intellectual circle, one happy to discuss politics and ideas.