well-heeled

Example Sentences

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So far, the most well-heeled Americans have continued to spend, to the point that they are able to offset the pullback from nearly everyone else.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Someone who has no retirement savings in middle age can, unfortunately, receive the same amount of scorn as a well-heeled retiree who has $10 million in middle age.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

"They tended to be very well-heeled gentry who'd come and stay at the likes of places like Chatsworth and be taken on a tour of the Peak District," says John.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

While Prague had always been home to German-speakers, the language acquired a near-total linguistic hegemony over the city’s well-heeled elites, despite Prague’s Czech-speaking hinterland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Farmer convinced a well-heeled Duke classmate, Todd McCormack, to join the PIH board of advisers, as did, some months later, a fellow Harvard anthropology and medical student named Jim Yong Kim.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French