How to Use well-off in a Sentence

well-off

adjective
  • Other chains have also begun highlighting the concerns of less-well-off customers.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And unlike past economic crises, this collapse has crossed all class lines, affecting bazaar merchants and the well-off as well as the poor.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Born in 1821, Baudelaire came from a fairly well-off family.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Beans and greens are often paired with pork, a lucky New Year’s food, thanks to the pig’s reputation for being plump and well-off.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But while price tags climb and well-off consumers shell out, auto loan delinquency rates among people with low credit ratings are sitting near all-time highs.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Obviously poverty is not required—the well-off can write great literature, and often have.
    — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Weiner says that the people allegedly involved in the plot come from all sorts of backgrounds, including some from well-off families.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The White House needs to be clear about the burden that tariffs as a consumption tax impose and craft policies to lessen the harm on the least well-off.
    — Claudia Sahm, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Rural areas also used to be thought of as less financially well-off and therefore less desirable for retailers.
    — Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • How long can Lovo expect the scant well-off Buffs boosters to reach into their pockets and endure such failed expectations?
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
  • In the meantime, Yardeni wrote, many are likely to continue receiving financial support from their well-off parents.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Yet the global measles count this year indicates that other relatively well-off countries aren't drawing any lessons from Romania.
    — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Best friends get together with their wives and daughters to celebrate the 50th birthday of the more successful and financially well-off of the pair.
    — Anthony Jeselnik, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The bundling of flights, transfers and accommodation opened up foreign travel to less well-off consumers who previously could only holiday at home.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Spending by well-off Americans, driven by their surging stock portfolios, is the single most significant driver of growth.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2025
  • As education and prosperity rose, well-off people married later and had fewer children, and women had more choices and higher standards.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • For better or worse, the richest have long been able to wrest stars from the less well-off; there is, though, a welcome debate to be had about how much PSR solidifies the status quo.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • My mother belonged to Mersin’s well-off Christian community, which was mainly of Syrian origin.
    — Joseph O’Neill, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Everywhere, in big cities and small towns, there’s an increase in the adultification of children, even the well-off ones, even the ones raised by gentle parents, even the ones with skate and surf camps, guitar lessons, and college funds.
    — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • Travel, vacations and tickets to live sports events are all increasingly being pursued by only more well-off Americans, some economists have noted.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The pastor’s initiative proved so popular that the church began distributing feed sacks to well-off homes, so Boston housewives could continually set aside castoffs for donation.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • Stock holdings are disproportionately concentrated among the more well-off and give them greater financial flexibility.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Matthiessen was born in 1927 to a pair of well-off, chronically depressed New Yorkers, people who were more likely to pour a stiff drink or take to their beds than to talk openly about their feelings.
    — Maggie Doherty, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Poe contends that individuals who are less financially well-off have a greater incentive to commit auto insurance fraud than higher-income individuals.
    — Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The idea of anchoring was to enforce an upper limit on how much money could be poured into wages and transfer fee amortisation (which includes agent fees), with this maximum amount linked to the Premier League’s least well-off teams.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The runup in housing values and stock prices largely benefited already well-off consumers, Zandi said, because ownership of those assets is highly concentrated among upper middle class and wealthy consumers.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The runup in housing values and stock prices largely benefited already well-off consumers, Zandi said, because ownership of those assets is highly concentrated among upper middle class and wealthy consumers.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • While the Israeli bombing of Iran’s capital targeted both wealthy and less well-off areas of Tehran, residents with means and access to extra fuel amid a fuel shortage were able to flee the city and even the country.
    — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Although poor students are disproportionately likely to receive special education in New York City, well-off disabled kids are the ones most acutely driving up the budget.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In it, the wife (Laura Sosnowski) in a well-off couple is cheating on her husband (Blair Mitchell) with one of his employees (Eric Joshua Valle).
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026

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