10 example sentences using affluence.
Affluence used in a sentence
Affluence in a sentence as a noun
There is obscene display of super affluence right next to shocking Poverty.
It's an eclectic area where poverty, middle class, and affluence collide.
"Everyone we know who unschools, in fact, has chosen autonomy over affluence.
Dustin, maybe hot off the aquihire of a desirable web property, looking for how to best direct his affluence.
With increasing affluence, parents were given a greater opportunity to protect their children from the realities of life.
Not the most scientific study for many reasons, including 2nd/3rd gen Chinese, but knowing Vancouver, that demographic doesn't intersect with the affluence much at all. This "study" wouldn't work as well in SF, but you get the point.
In developing countries, demand for car ownership is up, because of increasing affluence and the poor state of infrastructure in those countries.
It's probably true that the children of millionaires will be financially better off than children of middle class families, but that leads back to the point of the article: Will that affluence make them happy and more fulfilled?
Based on the principle of charging the maximum price the market is willing to bear, would you consider it ethical for a company like Amazon to charge more or less based on the affluence of the billing zipcode for each customer?
Death by warfare is on the decline, poverty globally is decreasing, affluence is increasing, technology is rapidly improving, communications are knitting together all cultures and regions of the world in ways we can't fully appreciate even while it's happening.
Affluence definitions
abundant wealth; "they studied forerunners of richness or poverty"; "the richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty"
See also: richness