How to Use tony in a Sentence

tony

adjective
  • Plus, the neighborhood has grown tonier and tonier around you.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
  • Belmond’s fleet of small, tony riverboats is about to gain a new member.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Music and loud voices could be heard from a home across the street in the tony neighborhood.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 July 2018
  • Hidden behind tony homes are tent cities and the open fires of homeless people who camp out in ravines.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Jean thought about one of her sorors, a senior from tony Niskey Lake named Buffy.
    — David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Now the model appears to be flipping again in the same tony neighborhood.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Step inside, and your appetite is piqued by a wood-burning pizza oven to the left and a tony lounge to your right.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But without a doubt, the toniest perk was having around-the-clock butler service.
    — Katie Chang, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Indeed, between both spaces, that color shared the spotlight with the event’s tony guest list.
    — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The singer has been on and off tour during the legal proceeding since he was pulled over in the tony town this summer.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Even the font used for the logo is utterly distinctive and suggests a tony coastal look and feel.
    — Laura Ness, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2025
  • At the time, the area was fields and farmland, not the tony neighborhood where palm trees and sprawling villas flank the streets.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For all the tony tastes of his background, Cha is eager both to step out on his own — and sling something simpler.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The tony new tone to Tasmania doesn’t mean the island is no longer a mecca for outdoorsy types.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Meet Antoine, head chef of a four-star, once-hard-to-get-into, tony French restaurant.
    — Jay Steven Levin, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Take a break from shopping, grab lunch-to-go and relax in this space along busy and tony Park Avenue.
    — Anne Dunlap, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 June 2018
  • One block south is the epicenter of tony shopping, and one block west is Central Park.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Bird flu has hit the Hamptons, and tony beaches are becoming grisly mass graves for geese.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • By day, Chloe is running a women’s magazine, and Adam works at a tony law firm.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 29 May 2025
  • Just make sure to pick up a bike to explore town—cycling is the preferred method of transport for even the toniest local here.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 19 June 2026
  • The deal is the latest in a string of high-end home sales in the tony Santa Barbara area over the last few months.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The old man ran cattle in Sun Valley before the tony ski town existed.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Some left with just the clothing on their backs, overwhelmed by the swirling ash and heat that threatened to overtake their tony neighborhood.
    — Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
  • At least four shops along the tony retail stretch have already closed and many of the 140 others have reduced their hours.
    — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • For years, Zaslav lived in a tony village in Westchester County.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The show in the tony French Riviera city marks the start of the international boat show season.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Located by Hyde Park in tony Knightsbridge, the five-star hotel will be your home base for the first three days.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
  • Also not to be missed is the award-winning Boragó in the tony Vitacura area on the eastern end of the city.
    — Patricia Garip, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2022
  • To a place called Oxfordshire in England, which is a tony wealthy place that rich Londoners go to.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 21 Aug. 2025
  • And remember, too, that the X-Men also hail from a tony Westchester suburb.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2019

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