social register

Example Sentences

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And the Joe Coffee on the corner of Pineapple and Hicks streets is where Georgiana, the youngest daughter of “Pineapple Street”’s adamantly Social Register Stanton family, utters the immortal line, “Oh no, I left my Cartier tennis bracelet in Lena’s BMW and she’s leaving for her grandmother’s house in Southampton” as she is fatefully spotted by the reluctant heir to a zillion-dollar defense fortune.

From New York Times

At times, Mosley’s testimony felt like a live reading of the social register.

From The Verge

Even if their ancestors were not in The Social Register, Mr. Cuomo, Ms. Haines and Mr. Hawley were born to families whose advantages helped propel their careers.

From New York Times

Easy’s search will take him to an ad hoc veterans’ bar, a sex club, an insurance conglomerate, gangster’s lair, construction company and homes not on the L.A. social register.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Hastings said that his mother was a Boston debutante from a Social Register family who married a lawyer who later worked in the Nixon administration.

From New York Times