A quiet and shy boy in his youth, Khan grew up with his four sisters in relatively affluent (upper middle-class) circumstances and received a privileged education.
They were not, so far as I could judge, of any great value, nor did the bank-book show that Mr. Oldacre was in such very affluent circumstances.
Mr. Keyes traced his interest in helping the poor to his experiences of growing up in relatively affluent circumstances amid extreme poverty.
To save us from ourselves, it is perhaps no coincidence that God chose the humblest and the least affluent circumstances through which to announce Himself.
The family portraits by Thomas Struth, also in color, report on the affluent circumstances of the sitters but little else.
He was not in very affluent circumstances, though he did have his clothes made by a tailor.
Ironically, Jackson had grown up in very affluent circumstances.
Some days afterward M. Agassiz received a letter from this chance acquaintance, who proved to be a man in affluent circumstances, of good social position, living at the time in Geneva.
She grew up in affluent circumstances at Beach Ninth Street, Far Rockaway.
She was raised as the only child of her parents' second marriages and grew up on Phoenix's North Central Avenue in affluent circumstances.