well-to-do
Example Sentences
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Then, we decided with the club and him, and with Roberto as well, to do a normal transition.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025
My grandparents were not well to do, but their gift was making anyone at their table feel like they belonged.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2025
“Our girls knew they needed to score well to do well.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2023
I appreciated Courtland Milloy’s Sept. 28 Metro column, “Ron Brown scholars are ‘doing well to do good’.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2022
Nothing would go wrong in flight, we hoped, but if it did, the simulator should have prepared them well to do the right thing in any emergency.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
