Gentry used in a sentence

Gentry in a sentence as a noun

That should fly real well with the monied gentry on the 50th floor.

That's how the us constitution was set up to suit the rich landed gentry not the huddled masses in the city.

“The agenda of the gentry is to force the working class to live in apartments for the rest of their lives and be serfs.

“It’s a weird Upstairs, Downstairs world in which there’s the gentry, and the role for everybody else is to be their servants,” Kotkin said in a telephone interview.

H1Bs are supported primarily by wealth white suburbia and the "landed gentry" of upper management in urban areas.

I think SF is stuck with a perfect storm of "landed gentry" conservatives that don't want to pay for homeless services, sympathetic liberals whose spare change enables drug addicts, civil rights activists that fight city hall to protect people's "right to be homeless", and the so-called "homeless industrial complex.

It is this emphasis on the collective good that has driven modern eugenics discourse since the late nineteenth century, when Chinese intellectuals the well-to-do gentry, and government officials explored how to improve the Chinese race after the arrival of the stronger Western imperialist nations.

The "negative" possibility is a reemergence of old-style landed gentry, where wealth passes down from generation to generation with relatively little perturbation or erosion, interrupted only in the case of the "bad apple" bone-headed heir who actively blows the family fortune.

I wonder if there were similar complaints when Buddhism entered China:"Buddhism appealed to Chinese intellectuals and elites and the development of gentry Buddhism was sought as an alternative to Confucianism and Daoism, since Buddhism's emphasis on morality and ritual appealed to Confucianists and the desire to cultivate inner wisdom appealed to Daoists.