Sentence examples for a show of wealth from inspiring English sources

In the 19th century, overeating was a show of wealth.

I have friends who have houses that are more like a show of wealth.

The large horn, while being slowly ground down to a powder for consumptive use, is also an item of excess, a show of wealth on a shelf.

In some places, it's a show of wealth, esteem and prestige, but in so many other places, it's nothing more than relief from the world.

Large plazas tower over high-walled mansions finished in faux-gold because here, a show of wealth and status, real or imagined, is far more lucrative than money.

Today is the day to move on from putting money to your ear as a show of wealth, to creating wealth by investing in your future, family and community.

01223 331212 One of the earliest examples of a show of private wealth, this was built in 1440 by Ralph Cromwell, treasurer to Henry VI.

"In Calabria, there are billionaires who live like paupers," says Macri. "The young drug couriers make a show of their wealth.

Jesus sees rich people making a show of their wealth with their donations to the temple, while a poor widow gives all she has, two coins.

But bizarrely, Farhad, along with about 100,000 traders who lost their jobs when the market in Moscow was closed down two weeks ago, may have been made unemployed as a result of the oligarchic party of parties: a tasteless show of wealth that apparently infuriated the Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin.

I think it's vulgar, a public show of wealth.