How to Use tony in a Sentence

tony

adjective
Definition of tonynext
  • There is no tonier crowd than the one gathered in this room.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The New York native had moved to the city’s tony Brentwood section in 1963.
    — Fox News, 1 May 2021
  • The deal is the latest in a string of high-end home sales in the tony Santa Barbara area over the last few months.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Its next big move is the new store in the tony Mayfair district of London, set to open on Nov. 15.
    — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024
  • That's up from last year's $6.7 million home price when the tony suburb also topped the list.
    — Rachel Layne, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Music and loud voices could be heard from a home across the street in the tony neighborhood.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 1 July 2018
  • Once their Carmel house sells, the Joneses may buy a house in the tony Williams Creek neighborhood for use as a pied-a-terre.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 11 Sep. 2017
  • At the time, the area was fields and farmland, not the tony neighborhood where palm trees and sprawling villas flank the streets.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Take a break from shopping, grab lunch-to-go and relax in this space along busy and tony Park Avenue.
    — Anne Dunlap, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 June 2018
  • Step inside, and your appetite is piqued by a wood-burning pizza oven to the left and a tony lounge to your right.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But in late July, a new option came across the transom: three-bedrooms with a yard in the tony Brandt Point area.
    — Hannah Seligson, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The show in the tony French Riviera city marks the start of the international boat show season.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Also not to be missed is the award-winning Boragó in the tony Vitacura area on the eastern end of the city.
    — Patricia Garip, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2022
  • Meet Antoine, head chef of a four-star, once-hard-to-get-into, tony French restaurant.
    — Jay Steven Levin, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • At least four shops along the tony retail stretch have already closed and many of the 140 others have reduced their hours.
    — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The singer has been on and off tour during the legal proceeding since he was pulled over in the tony town this summer.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2024
  • One block south is the epicenter of tony shopping, and one block west is Central Park.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • For all the tony tastes of his background, Cha is eager both to step out on his own — and sling something simpler.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Hidden behind tony homes are tent cities and the open fires of homeless people who camp out in ravines.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Located by Hyde Park in tony Knightsbridge, the five-star hotel will be your home base for the first three days.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
  • The tony new tone to Tasmania doesn’t mean the island is no longer a mecca for outdoorsy types.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Now the model appears to be flipping again in the same tony neighborhood.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The rural area, roughly 30 miles north of the tony shops and vineyards of Calistoga, is a world away from the Bay Area.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The champ signed his bout agreement against tony Ferguson.
    — Mma Junkie Staff, MMA Junkie, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But without a doubt, the toniest perk was having around-the-clock butler service.
    — Katie Chang, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The old man ran cattle in Sun Valley before the tony ski town existed.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Indeed, between both spaces, that color shared the spotlight with the event’s tony guest list.
    — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Now a Ralph Lauren Home store with window mannequins in pastels came as no surprise on one of the tonier blocks.
    — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • In downtown Dallas, near the first private venue — the tony Belo Mansion — the crowds got thicker.
    — John C Moritz, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017
  • And remember, too, that the X-Men also hail from a tony Westchester suburb.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2019

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