social register

Example Sentences

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Laffer is a tireless talker and raconteur who, in the course of an interview, can drop enough famous names to fill a social register.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2022

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

From The Verge • Nov. 2, 2021

For a time, it produced a Supreme magazine, featuring the likes of Chloë Sevigny and Ryan McGinley as models, that functioned as a social register of sorts for the downtown art set.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2012

Conspicuous in the cast was Mrs. R. Bartow Read, whose name and address are in the social register, amateur actress making an amusingly competent professional debut under her maiden name, Hope Williams.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had pictures of the same in my social register.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton