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How to use elite in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Elite means of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician. Example: “Alexander the Great's army numbered an elite cavalry among its ranks.”

Examples of elite by meaning

nounA special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power...

  • constituting an elite
  • the hubris of the elites
  • Is there a nobler or more disinterested aim than to educate the cadres, the elites of tomorrow?1964 August 7, “France's Culture Corps”, in Time

nounSomeone who is among the best at a certain task.

  • The Nations League results have also seen England respond to an ongoing criticism that they fail to beat the top sides, with even Southgate insisting they could not be considered among the world's elite until they beat the best.2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with elite

  • Alexander the Great's army numbered an elite cavalry among its ranks.From the entry number
  • You got duked in to the elite.From the entry duke in
  • From a society of a white elite ruling over a predominantly enslaved Black subaltern population, the Haitian Revolution generated a slaveless country that proceeded to suffer with socioeconomic divides.From the entry slaveless
  • Plummy students and the managerial elites might accrue ever-more virtue points through embracing the gender ideology.2026 January 23, Brendan O'Neill, “Gender ideology has been a disaster for working-class women”, in The Spectator. From the entry plummy
  • The Democrats are a party controlled by elites, liberals and special interest groups.2025 January 31, Doug Sosnik, “Trump is Already Failing. That’s the Key to a Big Democratic Rebound.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry special interest group
  • European alarmism has already encouraged a growing chorus of Russian elites to engage in mirror imaging.2025 December 20, Hanna Notte, “Europe risks a self-fulfilling prophecy over Russia threat”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times…. From the entry mirror imaging
  • He comes from a family of athletes: Greg, his father, was an elite vaulter for the U.S.2024 May 8, Liam Tharme, “Mondo Duplantis: Breaking down the biomechanics behind the best-ever pole vaulter”, in The New York Times. From the entry heptathlete
  • As an offshoot of the form, it is still an elite physical discipline, largely performed en pointe.2023 June 19, Cat Woods, “Hiplet Dancers on the Fusion of Classical Pointe with Hip-Hop and Urban Dance”, in The Observer, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry hiplet
  • Asian Americans are overrepresented in both elite universities like Harvard and also in community colleges.2022 November 3, Harmeet Kaur, “How Asian Americans fit into the affirmative action debate”, in CNN. From the entry overrepresent
  • "And thanks to this, the Kadyrov elite group was destroyed, which came here to eliminate our president."2022 March 2, Brigid Kennedy, “Ukraine reportedly foiled a Zelensky assassination plot after a tipoff from Russian authorities”, in The Week. From the entry Kadyrovite
  • Near the end, there's a blockade of three foes, including one elite.2022 August 26, GamerGuides.com, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – Strategy Guide, Gamer Guides, →ISBN. From the entry deaggro
  • Remarkable Paul O'Donovan deserves to take his place among the elite names in Irish sport.2021 December 26, Shane McGrath, “Remarkable Paul O’Donovan deserves to take his place among the elite names in Irish sport”, in extra.ie. From the entry take one's place
  • A new class of workers stands opposite the coding elite: the cybertariat.2021 May 27, Jenna Burrell, Marion Fourcade, “The Society of Algorithms”, in Annual Review of Sociology, volume 47, San Mateo, C.A.…. From the entry cybertariat
  • Initially, party elites did not rally behind Trump because his candidacy was not perceived as credible.2020 April 7, Agnès Alexandre-Collier, Alexandra Goujon, Guillaume Gourgues, Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative…. From the entry rally behind
  • It finally settled at Sze Yin, and has become the cradle of elite naval officers.(Can we date this quote?), “Gun Salutes”, in Republic of China Naval Academy, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2016. From the entry Hsiamen
  • They have been assigned a number of roles by the political elites.2016 October 3, Daniel Deiss, J.Hawk, Edwin Watson, “NGOs: Grassroots Empowerment or Tool of Information Warfare?”, in South Front. From the entry propaganda laundering
  • Unabashed cyber-libertarianism, combined with an avaricious and wholly unconflicted brand of consumerism, permeates America's digital elite.2015, Jacob Silverman, Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection. From the entry cyberlibertarianism
  • In the early post-Soviet years the Russian elite was divided into liberal westernisers and pragmatic nationalists.2015 June 28, Jonathan Steele, “Yevgeny Primakov obituary”, in Observer. From the entry westerniser
  • The appreciation of microtiming seems to be an exclusive pleasure for the music elite.2015 August 20, Lorenz Kilchenmann, Olivier Senn, “Microtiming in Swing and Funk affects the body movement behavior of music expert…. From the entry microtiming
  • Unlike many influential politicians in Taiwan and elsewhere, Lu Hsiu-lien does not come from an elite family.2014, Jerome A. Cohen, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4. From the entry Taoyuan
  • Part of “Ford Nation is loyal to Ford because they know he offends and upsets the elites.”2014 May 16, Paul Koring, “Rob Ford a topic of discussion at U.S. think tank”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 08 Aug 2014. From the entry Ford Nation
  • And eagerly we awaited Baballa’s holiday zakaz, the elite take-home package of defitsit goods from Gosstroy.2013, Anya von Bremzen, “1970s: Mayonnaise of My Homeland”, in Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing, New…. From the entry cod liver
  • He labels these unhealthy links between the government and unelected, quasi-hereditary business elite as “tycoonocracy”.2011, Joseph Y. S. Chenga, Journal of Comparative Asian Development, “Goodstadt, Leo F. (2007). Profits, politics and panics — Hong Kong's…. From the entry tycoonocracy
  • Supposedly, regular mortals have to shell out $50 for presumptuous malparkage among the elite.2010 February 8, Sean Michael Ragan, “UC Berkeley has 'Nobel Laureate Only' parking spaces”, in Make, archived from the original on 26 Jan…. From the entry malparkage
  • They were the product of the country's artistic elite and were critical of the government.2009, W[illiam] R. Clement, “Culture in Hyperspace: This is Not a Computer Game”, in Quantum Jump: A Survival Guide for the New…. From the entry samizdat
  • Only elite litigants could likely afford the time that multiple retryings required.2009, Josiah Ober, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens, page 145. From the entry retrying
  • But her latest act has catapulted her into art’s tastemaking elite.2007 June 10, Julia Chaplin, “Follow That Motoscafo”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2013. From the entry tastemaking
  • In democracy, the citizens get relatively higher benefits; the elites benefit in nondemocracy.2006, Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, page 176. From the entry nondemocracy
  • He attacked "transnational economic elites" and "globocrats" for their seeming indifference to national borders.2006, Michele Wucker, Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right, PublicAffairs…. From the entry globocrat
  • The finching yards of the country estates were important meeting points of the elite.2004, The Dutch Historical-Geographical Journal, magazine issue 22…. From the entry finching
  • Collectively the P'u-t'ien elite claimed the most ancient pedigree among the Min-nan elite.2004, Thomas H. C. Lee, editor, The New and the Multiple: Sung Senses of the Past, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 248. From the entry Fu-chou
  • The rewards of an increasingly integrated global economy have brought forth a new global elite.2004, Samuel P. Huntington, “Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite”, in The National Interest, number 75, →ISSN, pages…. From the entry Davos Man
  • An equally tough problem is crossing swords with the straight political elites, particularly the power ministries.2002, Ukraine's Quest Roundtable Steering Committee, “Ukraine and Human Rights”, in Ukraine's Quest for Mature Nation Statehood - A…. From the entry cross swords
  • A given level of education at one time gave access to elite jobs.2002, Steven G. Brint, The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry credential inflation
  • The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.2000, María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Literature of Al-Andalus. From the entry qasida
  • Here the ghetto-centric individualism of the poor appears to have defeated the convenient bioessentialism of the elite.2000, Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond The Color Line, page 266. From the entry bioessentialism

Meaning of elite

  1. adjective Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
  2. adjective Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
  3. noun A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.

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Questions about elite in a sentence

How do you use elite in a sentence?
Elite is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Alexander the Great's army numbered an elite cavalry among its ranks.”
What is a short sentence with elite?
“constituting an elite”
What does elite mean?
Elite means of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.

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