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How to use riches in a sentence

28 example sentences · noun

Riches means money, goods, wealth, treasure. Example: “You will enjoy the riches of this forest.”

Examples of riches by meaning

nounAn abundance of anything desirable.

  • You will enjoy the riches of this forest.

nounRich people.

  • Chander Lall Mookerji wrote to me thus: “The youngs and the olds, the highs and the lows, the riches and the poors, all join together in praising Your Honour’s magnanimity.”1929 March, A. C. Amy, “‘Well, when I was at the War—⁠—’”, in William H[eaton] Horrocks, C. J. Coppinger, editors, Journal of the Royal...
  • In Antiquity has also existed social conflicts between the poor men and the riches.2012, Constantin Portelli, “The Italian Fascism”, in The Big Transition, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN
  • They live in the forest, steal from the riches and help the poors.2020, Derya Öztürk, chapter 9, in Robin Hood (Stage-1), İstanbul: Maviçatı Yayınları, →ISBN

More sentences with riches

  • All the riches he acquired were from hard work.From the entry acquire
  • Petaluma is also well-positioned as a base for the current riches of the region.2025 June 26, David G. Allan, “Once ‘the world’s egg basket,’ this Gold Rush-era boomtown still delivers culinary riches”, in CNN…. From the entry Golden Gate Bridge
  • "I have many servants in my mountain fastness, and all the riches I could dream of."2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 116. From the entry fastness
  • Before Mr Big came along and turned your head with his riches.”2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry turn someone's head
  • Aflood in riches from its many successful conquests, Rome became a festering swamp of greed and corruption.1993, Let’s Go, Inc., “Ancient Rome”, in Kayla Alpert, David Thorpe, editors, Let’s Go: The Budget Guide to Rome 1993, New York, N.Y.: St.…. From the entry aflood
  • He is an archeologue and is greatly interested in Turkey's archeological riches.1986, The Pulse: Daily Review of the Turkish Press, page 11. From the entry archeologue
  • On the mainland nearby live men who dress in rags and lust after our riches.1974 May, John Robert Russell, chapter 3, in Sar, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 63–64. From the entry lust after
  • The poor stuggle for riches, success, power; but those who achieve them die out.1944, B. R. McElderry Jr., “The Grapes of Wrath: In the Light of Modern Critical Theory”, in College English, volume 5, number 6, page 312. From the entry squirrel cage
  • They all admired to see the foresaid riches in such dearth of money as was herebefore.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry herebefore
  • And you think one year of medical school entitles you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind?2024, Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis, spoken by Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver). From the entry Emersonian
  • Political power, after all, is the only game in town that ensures unfettered access to the nation's oil riches.2013 October 24, Adewale Maja-Pearce, “Nigeria's talking shop”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2013. From the entry only game in town
  • That’s a lot of cash, but it’s nothing like the riches that a senior partner at KP can pull down.2010 November 29, John Cassidy, “Mary Meeker Moves On”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry corporate speak
  • What might be an embarrassment of riches—a city with three independent and artistically distinct opera companies—may become a lose-lose-lose situation.2006 January 8, Daniel Ginsberg, “Opera in Berlin: A Staat of Flux”, in Washington Post, page N06. From the entry embarrassment of riches
  • The other kind of having leads to mutual giving, to creating life, to riches of a nature quite unmonetary.1966, Norman Norwood Holland, Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare, page 330. From the entry unmonetary
  • Learn how to wait until it's your turn to be called upon to receive the riches and glory that's in store for you.2009, Patrice London Thomas, The Revelation of Jesus. From the entry meekful
  • Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches.2007, Darryl Brock, If I Never Get Back, page 22. From the entry Twainesque
  • It is a widely accepted idea that archaic Greek elites consisted of ‘aristocrats’ who ruled by hereditary right and enjoyed a life of leisure thanks to their riches.2015, Alain Duplouy, “Genealogical and dynastic behaviour in archaic and classical Greece: two gentilician strategies”, in Nick Fisher…. From the entry gentilician
  • Because the disownee can’t justly claim to own the esteem or riches of the disowner, even if the disownee’s life will be very hard without that esteem and riches.2012 May 23, Bryan Caplan, “The Freedom to Disown”, in EconLog. From the entry disownee
  • The star indicates much trouble for the native in whose chart it is matutine rising or setting, but if the aspect is matutine culmination Arcturus brings riches and honor.1990, George Noonan, Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, page 14. From the entry matutine
  • Hackett was a vain, wealthy, violent gentleman, who held his blood and family in high esteem, and believed that a reverent respect was due to his great riches.1903, Mark Twain, A New Crime, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN. From the entry reverent
  • For all PSG's attacking riches, it was Manchester City who carried the more concerted threat - with the only concern initially that they could not cash in on their domination.2021 November 24, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 2 - 1 Paris Saint Germain”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2022. From the entry cash in
  • It was Sir Walter Raleigh who presciently said: 'Who commands the sea commands trade; who commands the trade of the world commands its riches, and so commands the world itself.'1992, Giles Radice, Offshore: Britain and the European Idea, page 20. From the entry presciently
  • Roger was in the library, trying to choose, from an embarrassment of riches, the ten of his father's books which he was to be permitted to take to the city.1908, Myrtle Reed, chapter 23, in Flower of the Dusk. From the entry embarrassment of riches
  • In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.1900 (original date: 1483), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints. From the entry belive

Meaning of riches

  1. noun Money, goods, wealth, treasure.
  2. noun An abundance of anything desirable.
  3. noun Rich people.

Full definition of riches

Questions about riches in a sentence

How do you use riches in a sentence?
Riches is used as a noun. For example: “You will enjoy the riches of this forest.”
What is a short sentence with riches?
“You will enjoy the riches of this forest.”
What does riches mean?
Riches means money, goods, wealth, treasure.

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