Sentence examples for mark of wealth from inspiring English sources

Shah, a jocund man of 45, has a round face that is a mark of wealth in Afghanistan.

Collecting instruments also may have been considered a mark of wealth and prestige, because some nobles assembled enormous collections, in which winds figure prominently.

BAODENG, China — If having children is a mark of wealth, Gao Shenmu and Wang Xiuying, a farming couple in their 70s, surely rank as rich.

The dazzle of $1 million — "that cryptogram, that bench mark of wealth, with its comet's tail of zeros" — is too much for Jacobs to resist, and from here the real losing begins.

Knives were still made of the best steel, but their presence on the London table was as a mark of wealth — metal in the service of display rather than utility.

The buildings became a mark of their wealth and power, and of the ambition to build an empire on which the sun would never set.

Like small-time email scammers offering a Nigerian royal fortune, González dazzles his marks with promises of wealth.

After that, displaying a mirror was a mark of refinement, power, wealth and self-confidence.

It reads, "The car is so much more than a machine that moves people from point A to point B. It is a symbol of freedom, an emblem of America's pioneering spirit, a status symbol, a mark of one's wealth, and sometimes, a sad substitute for a home or a temporary place to lay one's head".

Having the discipline to avoid these shortcuts is the mark of a highly successful wealth builder.

As an illegitimate son, Olaf was entitled to one mark of his father's wealth; this was, however, customarily understood to be a mark of silver and not gold.