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How to use wealth in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Wealth means riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions. Example: “Money talks, but true wealth whispers.”

Examples of wealth by meaning

nounRiches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.

  • Money talks, but true wealth whispers.
  • The existence of many nations and national characters is part of the cultural wealth of mankind, and there is no reason to seek to diminish their number.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon...

nounA great amount; an abundance or plenty.

  • She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.
  • There is a wealth of carved wood inside: from pulpit to pews, screens to lectern, and a large medieval chest made from a hollowed-out log of bog-oak with a massive lid.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 269, about a church in Lower Peover

More sentences with wealth

  • Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.From the entry quality
  • Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.From the entry tax
  • Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.From the entry drive
  • His life story goes the gamut, from poverty-stricken upbringing to colossal wealth.From the entry go
  • The subtraction of the wealth from the economy will result in recession.From the entry subtraction
  • The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.From the entry marked
  • The wealth of this small country contrasts sharply with that of its neighbours.From the entry sharply
  • The redistribution of wealth between the rich and poor has been tried many times.From the entry redistribution
  • His splashy car was supposed to show his wealth, but instead it showed his poor taste.From the entry splashy
  • She married into wealth and so has it made.From the entry make
  • All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.From the entry tell
  • The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.From the entry distribution
  • Rockefeller became the very eponym of wealth.From the entry eponym
  • They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.From the entry affluent
  • I wanted to marry wealth and power, and got both.From the entry marry
  • They lived under miserly conditions despite their wealth.From the entry miserly
  • They had achieved affluence, but aspired to true wealth.From the entry affluence
  • Unremitting pursuit of wealth doesn't bring happiness, particularly if successful.From the entry pursuit
  • The president was possessed of great wealth.From the entry possessed
  • He gained all his wealth by his own hand.From the entry by one's own hand
  • Wealth flows from industry and economy.From the entry flow
  • Wealth begets wealth; poverty begets poverty.From the entry beget
  • He amasses his wealth in secret.From the entry amasses
  • Our society has fetishized personal wealth.From the entry fetishize
  • I will never sell my stocks. I want to build generational wealth and leave it to my children, and I hope they do the same.From the entry generational wealth
  • The rise of the inheritocracy reflects three factors: increasing wealth, changing demography and slower economic growth.2025 March 1, “The bequest boom”, in The Economist, page 63. From the entry inheritocracy
  • The nation holds substantial oil reserves and about $24 trillion in mineral wealth.2025 November 4, Eric Levitz, “The most likely AI apocalypse: How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable…. From the entry resource curse
  • This dissonant combination of commodity wealth and mass poverty is not unusual.2025 November 4, Eric Levitz, “The most likely AI apocalypse: How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable…. From the entry resource curse
  • The flow of commercial wealth that Linyi generated changed political equations in the Tongking Gulf.2024, Li Tana, “‘THE Harbour and THE Path of All Countries’ Linyi, 200–700 CE”, in A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the…. From the entry Linyi
  • Newton said that she worried trends like bookshelf wealth encourage overconsumption.2024 January 15, Madison Malone Kircher, “Do You Have 'Bookshelf Wealth'?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry bookshelf wealth
  • Beijing is undoubtedly eyeing this vast territory, which potentially contains incalculable mineral wealth.2023 April 12, John Bolton, “A New American Grand Strategy to Counter Russia and China”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Peking
  • The people truly fascinated with stealth wealth are those far outside it.2023 May 15, Amanda Mull, “There’s No Secret to How Wealthy People Dress”, in The Atlantic. From the entry stealth wealth
  • We had spent the few hours since his death investigating his wealth.2021, Eva García Sáenz, translated by Nick Caistor, The Lords of Time, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 39. From the entry Jay Gatsby
  • The Europeanness of Tom’s wealth had alienated her, especially the way it reduced Grandfather’s wealth to nothing.2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 142. From the entry Europeanness
  • A trader or trading firm having zero wealth, I've already said, should be considered infinitely bad.2019 June 18, Agustin Lebron, The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone, Hoboken, New Jersey: John…. From the entry utilon
  • Conversely, infinite wealth should probably have infinity utilons, though large numbers might behave oddly.2019 June 18, Agustin Lebron, The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone, Hoboken, New Jersey: John…. From the entry utilon

Meaning of wealth

  1. noun Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
  2. noun A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
  3. noun Prosperity; well-being; happiness.

Full definition of wealth

Questions about wealth in a sentence

How do you use wealth in a sentence?
Wealth is used as a noun. For example: “Money talks, but true wealth whispers.”
What is a short sentence with wealth?
“He amasses his wealth in secret.”
What does wealth mean?
Wealth means riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wealth (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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