Sentence examples for affluent if from inspiring English sources

His characters are affluent, if not downright rich, and at ease wearing trendy clothes and fashionable accessories.

This onerous provision would let states do as they wish with this money, even spending it on the affluent if they choose to.

Because of cheap rents and relative proximity to the affluent if demanding customers of Manhattan, at least five bakeries have settled within a two-mile radius of one another.

In three attempts at major tournaments, two World Cups and one European Championship, he could advance his band of preposterously affluent if undeniably talented players no further than the quarter-final on each occasion.

With the Senate situation in flux, House members were growing increasingly wary about taking a pre-recess vote on a health plan with a hefty surtax on the affluent if it was not going to see the light of day in the Senate.

Beirut's skyline is covered in construction cranes erecting affluent, if empty, apartments; the banks are infused with deposits invested in the debt of a sovereign bankrupt in ways not simply financial.

Eastleigh really is affluent, even if its centre doesn't look it.

The more affluent ones, if they do understand it, struggle further when trying to put it into words.

In affluent countries, if there are problems they may be masked by ventilation and other sophisticated medical practices.

Still, the menu and the wine list hold enough pleasures to make Jerry's a comfortable fit for its affluent neighborhood, if not yet a destination.

Depression can be difficult enough to recognize among the affluent, but if you're way down the socioeconomic ladder, the signs may be even harder to distinguish.