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rich

When someone is rich, they have a lot of money and things. Bill Gates is rich because he has 60 billion dollars. When food is rich, it has a very strong flavor. This dish is rich tasting. This simple dish is made richer with the addition of cream. Adding truffles to this dish will make it the richest dish you've ever tasted.

rich

possessing material wealth her father is extremely rich many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources) blessed with a land rich in minerals rich in ideas rich with cultural interest of great worth or quality a rich collection of antiques (= deep) strong; intense deep purple a rich red (= fat, fertile, productive) marked by great fruitfulness fertile farmland a fat land a productive vineyard rich soil very productive rich seams of coal containing plenty of fat, or eggs, or sugar rich desserts they kept gorging on rich foods high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air a rich vein of copper a rich gas mixture suggestive of or characterized by great expense a rich display pleasantly full and mellow a rich tenor voice people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group) only the very rich benefit from this legislation (= full-bodied, robust) marked by richness and fullness of flavor a rich ruby port full-bodied wines a robust claret the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee (= ample, copious, plenteous, plentiful) affording an abundant supply had ample food for the party copious provisions food is plentiful a plenteous grape harvest a rich supply

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Simple sentences

If I get rich, I will buy it.
Not everyone who lives here is rich.
Japan is a rich country.
Lucy accepted to marry a rich young man called Cecil.
There were once upon a time a poor man and a rich woman.
I'd like to be rich and not have to worry about money.
I suppose you think I'm rich.
I used to be rich like you.
Tom is really rich.
Spinach is a rich source of iron and calcium.
Tom isn't as rich as his friends think he is.
Tom told me he used to be rich.
He's rich. He doesn't need money!
Ah! If I were rich, I'd buy myself a house in Spain.
I know you are rich.
The rich are not always happy.
The rich are apt to look down on people.
The rich sometimes despise the poor.
The rich merchant adopted the boy and made him his heir.
The rich have troubles as well as the poor.
I prefer being poor to being rich.
He is as rich as any man in this town.
The rich are apt to look down upon the poor.

Movie subtitles

This house is a rich person's house, right?
Is it a hella rich house?
Not to be household pets or show animals of the rich.
And you are now a rich man.
Some building on Melinda Street, how they were going to get rich.
You do this for me and you're rich forever.
I am going to make you a rich man.
The Marquis de Tergall is very rich and very influential in this region.
A rich farmer sollicits for Aranka for his son.
No, you do not look rich enough to me.
He only thinks about having everything that he ever dreamed: to be able and rich.
We discussed a stock market trade that would soon make me rich.
Wassily Shironine, a rich farmer from a near village and his son Ivan.
Goodbye, Dea! If I had been rich. and noble as you, they would have allowed us to love.
Those are the Pereire brothers, very rich bankers.
Your uncle's rich.
Young or old, but rich. You're pretty, you'll get your pick.
I'm not rich enough.
He was a rich bear and could afford the trip.
He would be a great painter if he were not so rich.
He's a rich man to buy Morocco.
Why do rich men on the west side wear ties but workers don't? Step right up, folks.
Why do rich men on the west side wear ties but workers don't?
One must be rich.
A rich wife's magnolia.
The poor boy that marries a rich girl.
If those men get away with that, they'll be rich for life.
Rich man, poor man, beggar man.
I have a rich man's disease. Normally my blood pressure is very normal, but my blood pressure tends to be elevated when it's getting measured.
And yet a rich variety of sounds can come out of it. isn't it?
Well, you should become rich, or I should become poor.
This means that we are rich people!
But tomorrow a very rich uncle is coming to me for a cup of coffee.
We discussed a stock market trade, that would soon make me rich.
On Sunday, rich old Berger Haugsett came to Glomgaarden. to ask for Berit's hand in marriage to his son Gjermund.
Yoshiki, the son of the rich business man Fujimoto.
They get rich.
Is he very rich?
Rich man, poor man, beggar man. -Thief.
We're rich!
He was a very rich man. with a quarter of a million acres in the Crimea, and an ardent sportsman.

News and current affairs

When the rich get less rich, the poor get poorer.
Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
Polluters must pay, whether in rich or poor countries.
This rich habitat supports remarkable biodiversity - or did before the oil companies got there - and more than 30 million local inhabitants, who depend on the local ecosystems for their health and livelihoods.
Its people have become powerful, arrogant, and enormously rich.
Many other rich countries' debt levels are also uncomfortably close to 150-year highs, despite relative peace in much of the world.
The rich countries will benefit, too, because they will be able to choose their preferred mix of reducing emissions and buying up emissions rights from developing nations.
Rich countries need to lead the way.
Africans suffering from hunger and drought, and indeed poor people everywhere, have a right to ask much more of the US and other rich countries.
Tony Blair is right to call on his rich-country colleagues to follow through on their unfulfilled promises.
His re-election to a second term as UN Secretary General was supported by nations all over the world, rich and poor, as well as by UN employees.
In other words, we must act in accordance with the recognition that climate change and its effects on people in both rich and poor countries remains a threat to global security.
This system provides unprecedented financial incentives to scientists and entrepreneurs to aggressively develop new technologies and thus become rich.
Not surprisingly, many UN agencies and aid agencies in rich countries fight this approach.
But, while emissions in the rich nations were far above the permissible limit, Sri Lankan emissions were, at 660 kilograms, well below it.
Moreover, these industries often play a central role in the economic development of resource-rich countries.
In these countries, many of which are rich in oil and gas, citizens are staging protests against corruption and political repression.
At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.
This will require bold political leadership and unprecedented solidarity between rich and poor countries.
Africa's mineral-rich countries must exploit their abundant natural resources.

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