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How to use luxury in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Luxury means very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create. Example: “Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.”

Examples of luxury by meaning

nounSomething that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not).

  • The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68

More sentences with luxury

  • Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.From the entry slender
  • His attempt to make money by importing luxury cars backfired horribly when fuel prices tripled.From the entry backfire
  • A live-in maid is a true luxury, but even a maid once a week is great.From the entry live-in
  • The divalike guests drive the luxury resort's staff to growing despair.From the entry divalike
  • At this hotel, the accent is on luxury.From the entry accent
  • After years of luxury, he became a spoilt brat.From the entry spoilt
  • We didn't have that luxury. If only!From the entry if only
  • That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.From the entry extravagance
  • The submarket for luxury homes has been growing.From the entry submarket
  • Person A: Are you going to splurge on luxury hotel stays during your vacation? Person B: God willing!From the entry god willing
  • The car has been duked up with luxury accessories.From the entry duke up
  • Following the breakdown of trade talks, the nation announced a 25% retaliatory tariff on all imported luxury vehicles.From the entry retaliatory tariff
  • It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.From the entry kill
  • This car came with rack and pinion, disc brakes, and a turbocharger at a time when all of those things seemed like exotic luxuries.From the entry rack and pinion
  • The optics are bad: a disgraced prince living in the luxury of a huge crown estate property.2025 October 20, Caroline Davies, “Dealing with ‘Andrew problem’ could help ease William’s accession to the throne”, in The Guardian…. From the entry optics
  • Many in these moneyed ranks choose to spend the festival in gas-guzzling luxury RVs.2023 August 28, Michelle Lhooq, “Burning Man attendees roadblocked by climate activists: ‘They have a privileged mindset’”, in The…. From the entry moneyed
  • Perhaps I would mind this “quiet luxury” less if the clothes were fabulous.2023 April 30, Eva Wiseman, “Why do we buy into ‘stealth wealth’ and the class who wear it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry quiet luxury
  • “Quiet luxury” is a kabuki performance of moneyed ease and indifference.2023 October 7, Robert Armstrong, Lauren Indvik, “How to look rich”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry quiet luxury
  • There, magnificent luxury homes can be found tucked into the tree-covered slope amid meandering roads.2022 September 2, “Extraordinary work by film industry heavyweights Stanley Kwan and Victor Wong depicts the fusion of design and nature…. From the entry Shouson Hill
  • If anyone knows what traveling in luxury is all about in the LEGO world, it’s this guy.2022 August 13, Cristina Mircea, “Freightliner Argosy-Inspired LEGO Super Sleeper Semi-Truck Is Packed With Amenities”, in Autoevolution. From the entry super-sleeper
  • The deal is the largest ever in the luxury sector, according to The New York Times.2019 November 25, Elizabeth Angell, “Luxury Giant LVMH Just Bought Tiffany and Co. for $16.2 Billion”, in Town and Country. From the entry Tiffany blue
  • The experiential value is, therefore, a major component of luxury consumption in a phygital environment.2019, Wided Batat, Digital Luxury: Transforming Brands and Consumer Experiences, SAGE, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry phygital
  • Luxury train travel is also available, an experience perfect for enjoying leisurelier travel.2019 September 30, Wendy Altschuler, “The Romance Of Travel And Taking It Slow”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2019. From the entry leisurelier
  • Dreaming of success, wealth and luxury, Deetee obambulated around the set in a leisurely manner.2018, Hulta Gertrude, Operation Selector. From the entry obambulate
  • The nap seems like a luxury, or even a sign of weakness, a regression into infantlike torpor.2018 December 1, Stephen Marche, “The $25 Nap Is Worth It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry hypercapitalism
  • “Supersetting is a luxury, not a necessity,” adds strength coach and author Bret Contreras.2017 January 5, Jordan Shakeshaft, “The Worst People at the Gym According to Trainers”, in Daily Burn. From the entry superset
  • Veteran hotelier Ian Schrager’s new venture in Manhattan takes luxury down a notch.2017 June 25, Eva Wiseman, “Public, New York: the five-star hotel for half the price”, in Guardian, retrieved 08 Feb 2021. From the entry take down a notch
  • The French islands didn't have the luxury of a deep-pocketed navy bankrolling a rum industry.2017, Jeff Cioletti, The Drinkable Globe..., pages 173-174. From the entry rhum agricole
  • We don’t have to overconcentrate on luxury on our ground level.2015 August 4, Vivian Marino, “A Conversation With Kenneth A. Himmel”, in New York Times. From the entry overconcentrate
  • For even the grandest of grandes horizontales, respectability was a luxury that remained tantalisingly out of reach.2015 December 7, Jane Shilling, The Telegraph. From the entry grande horizontale
  • They implanted desires for need-nots and luxuries, and unscrupulously inflamed them.2013, Alvin Jackson, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History. From the entry need-not
  • We had luxury cars and we didn’t reach back to the black minority who suffered.2013, Howard E. Covington, Jr., “Henry Frye, Esquire”, in Henry Frye: North Carolina’s First African American Chief Justice, Jefferson…. From the entry consumptuous
  • Yes — in fact, a lot of luxury cars don’t even have bumpers anymore.2012 September 21, Pagan Kennedy, “Who Made That Bumper Sticker?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry bumper sticker
  • I was disappointed with the Caesar Park, its Eurotrashy aircraft-hangar spaces, its cold approximation of luxury.2012, Jon Ronson, Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People. From the entry Eurotrashy
  • In fact, luxury man caves or ‘mantuaries’ are the latest must-have accessory for self-respecting gents.2011 November 11, Jenny Bennett, “Beware the caveman: Men are no longer happy to hide away in a shed, now they want their very own bespoke…. From the entry mantuary
  • Moroccan curried crab and streaks of minty, lemony yogurt add luxury to a supersimple zucchini soup ($14).2009 January 24, Corey Mintz, “Lunching well at Forte bistro and lounge”, in Toronto Star. From the entry Moroccan
  • If fatshionistas are willing to pay for luxury goods, why won't the industry make them for them?2009 June 25, Amy Odell, “‘Fat-shionistas’ Band Together for Full-Figured Fashion Week”, in New York Magazine. From the entry fatshionista
  • Nice work if you can get it, but the luxury market is a hard nut to crack.2008 October 17, Barbara Wall, “Housing crisis? Not for the superrich”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2011. From the entry hard nut to crack
  • MSNBC offers viewers the luxury of letting its experts do the work.2008 January 4, Alessandra Stanley, “For Happy Warrior of Political Coverage, Another Joyous Night”, in New York Times. From the entry superenergized

Meaning of luxury

  1. noun Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.
  2. noun Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without.
  3. noun Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not).

Full definition of luxury

Questions about luxury in a sentence

How do you use luxury in a sentence?
Luxury is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.”
What is a short sentence with luxury?
“We didn't have that luxury. If only!”
What does luxury mean?
Luxury means very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: luxury (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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