How to Use aristocratic in a Sentence

aristocratic

adjective
  • The port views and the claw-foot tub added to the seaside aristocratic feel.
    — Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 June 2026
  • His voice was kind of liquid, low, aristocratic, and yet swingy.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In life, Weiss had liquidy blue eyes and an aristocratic air.
    — Alex French, Wired, 11 Mar. 2020
  • In fact, pairing blue and brown can be handsome and often has an aristocratic air.
    — Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2021
  • And a historic aristocratic club turned chic boutique hotel is the place to stay.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • Take a young man from a rich, aristocratic family and give him the nerve to become an actor.
    — Matt Goulet, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In the film and the opera, an aristocratic couple invite a group of friends to their mansion for a post-opera dinner.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • But for the best mix of scenery, old aristocratic romance, and wisteria charm, my choice is Como.
    — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Brooksbank is the son of an accountant and grew up in British aristocratic circles.
    — Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Through four weeks, that tier of the sport has 19 wins over its aristocratic other half, the Power 5.
    — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • She was told the piece had been owned by a member of the aristocratic Barberini family.
    — Colleen Long, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2017
  • By contrast, Davos, the aristocratic spa town in the Swiss Alps, seems like an oasis of peace.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Maps, like landscapes, have been used for centuries in state and aristocratic portraits to denote possession of the land.
    — Taína Caragol, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • John Mueller argued that great-power war, like aristocratic dueling, had gone the way of the dodo.
    — Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • Pronto is a charmer and glad-hander who has tirelessly climbed the greasy pole to the summit of aristocratic society.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Born in San Antonio to a mother who was a maid to his aristocratic father, who refused to claim him.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 8 June 2026
  • Add to that the fact that the audience is dressed not unlike the aristocratic socialites whom Barnum rubs elbows with in the movie.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
  • In Europe at the time, mainly aristocratic men with means would have been able to pursue lifelong learning in a formal sense.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
  • Because the feudal courts, chivalric codes, and aristocratic patronage that had sustained it were gone.
    — Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Kumari writes that horses were both a source of military strength and a focus of pageantry for Mughal aristocratic leaders.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 20 Mar. 2026
  • This isn't the first time Lord and Lady Bath have made aristocratic history.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • Brooksbank, 31, is the son of an accountant and grew up in British aristocratic circles.
    — Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Brooksbank, 33, is the son of an accountant and grew up in British aristocratic circles.
    — Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 25 Sep. 2020
  • George turns eight later this month, which, according to old school etiquette experts, is the right age for aristocratic boys to make the switch from shorts and knee socks to full-length pants.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 July 2021
  • What is the root of the haughty aristocratic conservatism the Times chooses to foist on its liberal readership twice a week?
    — David Klion, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The Spencers are an aristocratic family whose history goes back centuries, though the tale of the Spencer tiara does not stretch that far back.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 29 Nov. 2020
  • For the woodsy outing, Kate's look was outdoorsy in a Ralph Lauren, aristocratic hunting lodge kind of way.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Before her, David Cameron and his aristocratic wife, Samantha, had gone for a Scandi-style look.
    — Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • That’s because just one actor plays all eight members of the aristocratic D’Ysquith family, each of whom is destined to be knocked off.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Polish the silver and ring the butler bells, for the Downton Abbey movie trailer has arrived in all of its aristocratic glory.
    — Vogue, 21 May 2019

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