newly-rich
Example Sentences
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Behold him in The Vortex, his first writing-acting success, backed by newly-rich Michael Arlen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt.
From Time Magazine Archive
These were bought up by anyone that came along and created a class of newly-rich that the country had never had before.
From Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) by Landman, Isaac
Eleanor turned, glanced at the living representative of the newly-rich, and smiled delightedly—not with recognition but at the possibility of having fun with someone arrayed like a peacock.
From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
In the middle period of the '70's, when, a great part of San Francisco was building, the newly-rich perpetrated some atrocious architecture.
From The City That Was; a requiem of old San Francisco by Irwin, Will
