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Example sentences for "rich man"

  • Thousands like Garvin lost all they had, while you are still a rich man.

  • How am I to open your eyes to the paradox of truth, that he who would save his life shall lose it, that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God?

  • I am not a rich man, even when such property as I have is compared to moderate fortunes of these days, but I would pay his salary willingly out of my own pocket rather than see him go.

  • I am a rich man with a title, and a big house, and a great command of luxuries.

  • Although he had by no means the reputation of being a rich man, he did not seem to care much what money he spent in furthering any object he had taken in hand.

  • At Washington he had been a popular man and had had the reputation of being a rich man also; but here, at home, in the country he seemed to her to fall off in importance, and he certainly had not made himself pleasant.

  • I endeavoured to protect a poor man against a rich man, and that in this country is cause of offence.

  • I'm not a rich man, sir, but I should like to watch the way in which such a question will be tried and brought to a conclusion in this aristocratic country.

  • From every Egdon point of view he was a rich man.

  • Won back his coat, won back his hat, won back his umbrella, his watch, his money, and went out of the door a rich man.

  • And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

  • It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

  • For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

  • The Unpleasantness of receiving into One's House a Poor Man who may be a Rich Man IX.

  • She wants her daughter to marry a rich man, and Mr. Edgerton Compton isn't rich, he only looks like he is.

  • Do you not suppose that you could quite forget that I was a rich man, Helen, and still let me be devoted to you?

  • And now you cannot possibly marry a rich man!

  • But where am I to meet such a rich man, Aunt Polly?

  • I told him that the great object of a rich man was to get his son into just that fix, but he couldn't seem to see it, and the boy hated it himself.

  • But in these days it is a duty that a gentleman owes himself to consider whether he wishes to know a rich man or not.

  • She had never cared much for the United States Senate, but she doubted if she ought to sit by when it was railed at as a rich man's club.

  • Tomorrow my father will be a rich man, for these four gold pieces will become two thousand.

  • When I come back I'll be so dressed up, you will think I am a rich man.

  • Pinocchio paid a gold piece for the three suppers and started on his way toward the field that was to make him a rich man.

  • The man went immediately and dug under the tree, and there he got a treasure, which made a rich man of him, and so his dream was accomplished.

  • It is also more agreeable for a rich man to live there, because there he can gratify his vanity; there is some one with whom he can vie in luxury; there is some one to astonish, and there is some one to outshine.

  • All that a rich man has to do there is to take a fancy to a thing, and he can get it.

  • Charon, who by now must be quite a rich man, evidently disdains all such petty hidden treasures as these.

  • Lauzun, when he came to marry, a rich man and a great lord.

  • He is not well off," replied Moliere, "but the tragedies which he has in his portfolio will make a rich man of him some day; of that I have not the least doubt.

  • His client not being a rich man, the matter was a serious one for him; he was a very talented architect, whose professional reputation was undoubtedly somewhat at stake.

  • I am a rich man," he added, fully conscious that the remark was not in good taste.

  • You are a rich man in this world's goods, but your soul is lean and hungry and naked.

  • Engaged--to a rich man, and a rich man's son.

  • He is a rich man, and a married man, and that ends it.

  • My son is a rich man--he is a prominent man.

  • He appears to think he can put on airs, and expects everybody to bow down to him because his father is a rich man.

  • His father's a rich man--got a nice place there.

  • In the city that wouldn't make a rich man.

  • Perhaps you will build a house there when you are a rich man.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rich man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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