How to Use well-heeled in a Sentence

well-heeled

adjective
  • This was also an era when only the well-heeled could afford to fly.
    — Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Read on to find out where the well-heeled are choosing to settle down in 2025.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Getting rid of property taxes in particular feels like a sop for the well-heeled.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The well-heeled have cemented the Paris-London-New York circuit as a must-take pilgrimage.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Its chic brown leather banquettes fill up nightly with well-heeled twenty- and thirty-somethings in for the cioppino teeming with plump mussels and lobster, but also to down Negronis beneath the abstract art and mod bubble lighting.
    — Alexandra Hall, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2023
  • Charming, well-heeled, and dedicated to raising his daughters to honor the family name, Harris (Dallas) is a hard worker, a loyal husband, and stoic in the face of crisis.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 7 May 2026
  • Also known as the Côte d'Azur (literally azure coast), the area is a resorty strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea to which the aristocracy and well-heeled celebrities have flocked since the 18th century.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2025

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