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How to use betters in a sentence

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

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The hope is that this drama will prompt viewers to think twice about the way we view our elders and betters.
He is a developing actor who should stick to playing the Artful Dodger for now, and leave Fagin to his elders and betters.
He was unlucky not to receive an Oscar nomination for his touching and subtle performance, which betters any of his previous work.
What's worse is when these people are supposedly your elders and betters and making such a public show of it.
I was almost positive that enlisted men were not supposed to speak to their betters in such a familiar manner.
All members of the society were responsible for their inferiors and owed deference to their betters.
Throughout history a doffed hat has symbolized defeat, humility and abasement before one's betters.
They aren't taught respect of their elders and betters, and that's a shame!
Parliamentary secretaries exist to sign letters, reply to debates at uncongenial hours, and read briefs approved by their elders if not betters.
Even the Parrot aimed to inculcate the habits of godliness and good behaviour, consideration for others, respect for ones elders and betters.
There was also the whole etiquette of uncovering your head in the presence of your betters and men doffing their hats to ladies and so forth.
Once freed, ex-cons were expected to check in their ticket of leave at the tradesman's entrance and work for their betters.
Volunteering not only feels good, but it betters your health as well, researchers say.
Maybe my moral outlook is the result of general respect for elders and betters.
In a previous era he'd have been a gardener on a large estate, and still retains all of his deference to people he considers his betters.
The problem with the young scallywags of today is that they don't have any respect for their elders and betters.
The writer is pitifully ignorant of the history of the field about which he purports to correct his elders and betters.
If I do not believe my Elders and betters, those who are purported to be most wise, then who is there left to believe?
Hollywood is a place where nuanced language and delicate diplomacy is needed in offering up a critique of your betters.
The image of the First Minister sitting quietly in his place, listening to his elders and betters, describes the new relationship rather well.
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Examples from Classical Literature
So keep a civil tongue in your head in the presence of your betters, Mike Connell.
And for you, my half-bred Spanish cockerel, know once and for all that this maid is for your betters.
They got all balled up, just as their intellectual betters do when they tackle theology.
Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commiseration with the follies of Prior Aymer.
She ceased to look on him as something wantonly malevolent, a Thersites recklessly slandering his betters.
Thither, too, thronged the plebeian classes as freely as their betters, and in larger number.
It was the first time I had ever seen this sort of criminals denied the privilege of destroying the comfort of a house full of their betters.
What an odious, ungratified existence it must have been for a woman as avid of all the sensuous emotions which life can give as most of her betters.
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