sophisticate

Example Sentences

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He was an everyday guy who had fallen in love, not a highbrow sophisticate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The late British author was a sophisticate with an eye for irony, influenced in large part by Monty Python’s random absurdities, P.G.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2023

Compared with the tense drama surrounding Zara and Bakhtiar, what happens to the filmmaker seems at first like comic relief — a fish-out-of-water caper about a big-city sophisticate snagged by rustic brambles.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

Those who know Lee only as his Gi-hun character would barely recognize the dapper sophisticate sitting with excellent posture in a small greenroom.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022

Johannesburg had always been depicted as a city of dreams, a place where one could transform oneself from a poor peasant to a wealthy sophisticate, a city of danger and of opportunity.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela