Sentence examples for a sign of affluence from inspiring English sources

We do know it wasn't simply that having more books was a sign of affluence.

By contrast, in developing countries such as China and India, where the recently-tubby tend to be well-to-do, flab can be considered a sign of affluence.

Although we may be in a housing bubble (time will tell), high-priced housing is also a sign of affluence and growth.

The polo shirt has caused a sensation in the Chinese fashion world as a sign of affluence and influence, but for those eager to wield true power, playing the horseback sport itself is a badge of having arrived.

Moore set up a photography studio in a tin hut in Bhopal, draped the interior in rich red material, laid a carpet – a sign of affluence – on the floor, and got two ornate "king chairs" made for the families to sit on.

Across Asia fair skin is considered the epitome of beauty and a sign of affluence - and it's certainly something that the beauty business has been keen to capitalise on.

Obesity is a sign of our affluence, not of our atheism.

Indeed, she seems to think that being able to afford a hotel room is in itself a sign of criminal affluence.

It's kind of an upper-class sign of affluence.

(It was a sign of the middle-class affluence that sped along in spite of the wars of faith).

The totem pole was also a sign of the owner's affluence, for hiring an artist to make a pole was an expensive proposition.