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How to use parvenu in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word parvenu? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Even the most parvenu journalist is, or should be, taught at his first shoot that grouse and partridges are counted in brace, pheasants singly.
Yet India's parvenu cricket stars are not altogether better than their predecessors.
Ms SahagĂșn is mistrusted as a political parvenu by many Panistas.
The Progressives were of the educated middle class, angry at the rule of parvenu financiers and industrialists.
Examples from Classical Literature
In spite of his imagination and his wit, he has the awkwardness of a parvenu or a savage.
And he, son of a parvenu, led the life of a rich, elegant idler.
It is the repose and not the struggle of the parvenu that confounds us.
It is alike the passion of the parvenu and the pride of the aristocrat.
But this luxury was in bad taste, and smelled of the parvenu.
It's pretty much the same with the comic clothes of the parvenu.
One of these was a middle-aged man of very respectable appearance, but with the stamp of parvenu upon him, a man whom nobody knew, and who evidently knew nobody.
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