four hundred

Example Sentences

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He replaced the Council of Four Hundred with one of five hundred and reorganized the Athenians into ten new tribes, including in each one villages from different parts of Attica.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Mrs. “Jack” is more beautiful than when she last appeared in her box at the Metropolitan Opera-House, an acknowledged belle of the Four Hundred.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2019

Rich people — and there were supposedly only Four Hundred of them — gathered in Mrs. Astor’s ballroom.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2019

Or at the very least as rigorous an exclusion from glory as that which formerly marked the difference between Mrs. Astor’s Four Hundred and the rest of the human race.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2014

“For as long as there is a Four Hundred in existence, human nature is such that there will also be a million who will want to get into it.”

From The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews by Bangs, John Kendrick