8 sentences with 'luxury'
Example sentences and phrases with the word luxury and other words derived from it.
• « Foreign trade was in the service of providing luxury goods to this elite social class, a class that was never politically united but shared a common culture of warrior kings and their armed retinues. »
• « Instead, a Stoic was to do his duty in his social roles without the distraction of luxury or indulgence. »
• « The rich lived in a state of luxury that would probably not be equalled until the Renaissance, but most Romans lived in squalid conditions. »
• « There was a limited market for luxury goods, even among those wealthy enough to afford them, and the only sources of reliable minted coinage were over a thousand miles away, in Byzantium, Persia and the Arab kingdoms. »
• « More important than bulk goods, however, were luxury goods, a trade almost entirely controlled by Italian cities during this period. »
• « Despite the injunction to live simply and avoid luxury, many priests (and monks and nuns) were greedy and ostentatious; »
• « Many French regions suffered economically as luxury shops closed and entire regions were devastated by the fighting. »
• « Italian luxury goods were superior to those produced in the rest of Europe, and soon even Italian weapons were better made. »