"buy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But their real dream was to buy respectability, to be accepted in traditional social circles.
- These are pictures of former governors, mostly robber barons from the last century who bought respectability with their public office.
- You come out with more money and an asset money alone cannot buy - respectability.
- The merchants grew fat and wealthy, gave their names to various philanthropic projects and bought respectability.
- One of their first objectives was to buy respectability.
- I am nothing but a New World Creole who bought respectability with power.
- And when they could afford it, they bought respectability, just as every cohort of New Money has done before them.
- Of course, you can't buy respectability with a house.
- You can't buy respectability with a lawsuit against a tabloid photographer.
- "Zinnia says you've got a plan to buy respectability."
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