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How to use riches in a sentence

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If not quite a tale of rags to riches, the story of Salim's rise to stardom certainly comes close.
Most of the platinum stars today started out on the road from rags to riches with their own independent label.
Here, corruption has become the most effective short cut in the journey from rags to riches.
For five weeks they explore the riches of the chamber music repertoire and present more than 30 public concerts.
To dream you hear hens cackling foretells success in love, and an accumulation of riches by means of female relations.
While the workers and the middle class of the great cities perished in misery, Stinnes became the owner of fabulous riches.
Our knowledge of the riches of the glory of God will increase forever and ever, world without end.
This is considered a famous poem, and reflects a graceful attitude towards riches and power.
You have passed the test of compassion, and I will grant you wishes and riches and magic powers!
Local lords and trade guilds made great donations of riches to ornament the cathedral, most notably, its unrivalled stained-glass windows.
This, then, is not a rags to riches tale, but one of a treasure chest so scarcely concealed that the topsoil barely covered it.
The self-indulgent lifestyle of the celebrity nouveau riches is as far from her experience as it is from any wage slave in a tedious job.
It runs the gamut of art riches over the centuries, stretching to murals, miniatures and manuscripts.
Numerous human rights violations have been committed in the scramble for these riches.
Room after room of the Armoury reveals incredible riches, including the imperial crown, mace and sceptre of the Tsars.
It was my ticket to untold riches, until I discovered that like all the best ideas someone had already thought of it.
If the woodcutter finds the key and opens the door, he will win the hand of the king's daughter in marriage and all his riches.
The use to which the wealth is put, and Jahangir's almost flippant attitude toward his riches, activates the notion of the ignorant barbarian.
In the Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty she plays a gold-digger using pre-nuptial agreements to hopscotch her way to riches.
He has claimed each of us as his own and wants to shower us with all the abundant riches he has to offer.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We read of the riches of his goodness, which are as unsearchable, as is his greatness.
And yet saith this Pamphilus, moreover, that they that are bond and thrall of linage should be made worthy and noble by riches.
That every convent and monastery should pay a donative, proportionable to its riches and rents.
From the station of a lacquey, an Italian who can amass riches, may rise to that of duke.
I thought I was a child of God, but the deceitfulness of riches has choked the word.
All these are illustrations of Jesuss teaching about the deceitfulness of riches.
In her femaleness she felt a secret riches, a reserve, she had always the price of freedom.
But she accepted her riches soberly, and did not fret that they must be so hoarded.
Honours and dignities are transient, beauty and riches frail and fugacious, to a proverb.
The greatest riches in washed gold are deposited in the provinces of choco.
What riches, or honours, or pleasures, can make us amends for the loss of innocence?
He has nowhere written that territorial riches were the exclusive appanage of the patriciate.
Glauco, the amorous fisherman, in order to obtain his Scilla, braves the sea and seeks renown and riches.
I can make a living for myself and my small family, and we do not hanker after riches.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering?
With the advent of long-distance voyages riches were now to be found beyond the confines of the narrow seas.
He had fallen into country house parties before, but never into quite such a plushy sense of riches.
What riches of story has not York to browbeat withal the storyless New-Yorker who visits her!
The riches of wisdom consist for the hedonist in their purchase of pleasure.
I too, like all the rest, am insatiate of riches, only in one respect I fancy I am different.
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