Sentence examples for so well-off from inspiring English sources

Taxes and laws make alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs pricey, so well-off people can afford them more often than the rest.

Then there are Diamond Days (affluent, mortgage-free suburbanites), Senior Security (well-off but risk-averse), and the Vintage Value (not so well-off).

Tom Harris, a junior transport minister and MP for Glasgow South, said that despite the credit squeeze, people in Britain have never been so well-off, and complained that they seemed to be afflicted by "crippling levels of cynicism and pessimism".

He was so well off that he dabbled in moneylending to English people.

But they are also quick to point out that the Winklevoss family was not always so well off.

"When I'm on teaching placement I don't feel so well off because I have to pay extra travel costs.

In Kenya and in Africa generally, women are rarely so well off or so well regarded as to run the show.

Joyce will never arrive at a point where he is so well off as not to ask an admirer for a loan.

Some are not so well off: with sagging barns and peeling paint, with faded lettering and rusty horse vans parked in overgrown front yards.

Many of the women I spoke with were so well off that they were sheltered from the fallout of the Great Recession — this, actually, was something that surprised me a great deal.

"Until recently, there was no harm in putting out a tip jar because people were so well off," said Michael Lynn, a professor at the Hotel School at Cornell and an expert on tipping.