Explore Rarefied through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like rarified or idealistic. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Rarefied in a sentence
Rarefied meaning
- Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.
- Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.
- Less dense than usual; thin.
Synonyms of Rarefied
Using Rarefied
- The main meaning on this page is: Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select. | Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value. | Less dense than usual; thin.
- Useful related words include: rarified, noble-minded, idealistic, lofty.
- In the example corpus, rarefied often appears in combinations such as: the rarefied, rarefied air, more rarefied.
Context around Rarefied
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rarefied
- In this selection, "rarefied" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, talks, air, world and atmosphere stand out and add context to how "rarefied" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against more rarefied louis xv and among more rarefied company with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rarefied" sits close to words such as abenaki, abstracted and addendum, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rarefied
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The 2800 club is a rarefied one. (7 words)
Food was not meant to be comfort at the rarefied restaurants. (11 words)
Haley’s involvement helped Steinert to some rarefied air during her first three seasons. (14 words)
Never has Irish hockey reached or experienced such rarefied heights, and between the men’s national team making their breakthrough at the 2016 Olympics and now an achievement on this scale, these are extraordinarily heady times for the game here. (40 words)
Still to be overhauled is G.E.’s former executive suite — a rarefied realm for Mr. Welch and his top deputies, with inlaid floors and walls enlivened with panels of stone or anigre wood. (34 words)
Born in 1934 to an affluent Jewish family, Cohen descended from the hills of his rarefied Westmount neighborhood to play country music in Montreal’s gritty downtown cafes when he was only a teenager. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Cziczo, professor and head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in Purdue's College of Science, is an expert in who has spent decades studying this rarefied region.
Ms Choi, 28, who lived in the rarefied world of Hong Kong’s celebrities and social media influencers, was murdered in February.
So delicious is it to be part of this rarefied club, even from the sidelines, that many of these celebrity enablers leave their morals beyond the velvet rope marked VIP access.
Still to be overhauled is G.E.’s former executive suite — a rarefied realm for Mr. Welch and his top deputies, with inlaid floors and walls enlivened with panels of stone or anigre wood.
This could easily describe the life of Muhammadu Buhari at the most rarefied levels of political leadership.
With walls clad throughout in chestnut panelling, set against more rarefied Louis XV-style doors, the house has a presiding atmosphere of rusticity and warmth.
Both teams are also learning that while it's difficult to get to the top of the sport, it's even more difficult to stay in that rarefied air.
In the rarefied atmosphere of the International Court of Justice, these words demand a response of the world’s highest court.
The 2800 club is a rarefied one.
By 1995, Tupac Amaru Shakur, aka 2Pac, had ascended into rarefied air as one of the most compelling personalities in pop culture.
Food was not meant to be comfort at the rarefied restaurants.
Haley’s involvement helped Steinert to some rarefied air during her first three seasons.
The biggest fans might go harder for has a unique and rarefied position within gaming history.
In the talks’ rarefied atmosphere, the Fossil of the Day awards are a simple, clear and somewhat humorous message that is popular with the media and delegates alike.
The attack rattled the rarefied world of elite dressage — a balletic Olympic sport where horses perform exacting movements — and comes at a turbulent time in equestrian sport, which has been for sexual misconduct.
Born in 1934 to an affluent Jewish family, Cohen descended from the hills of his rarefied Westmount neighborhood to play country music in Montreal’s gritty downtown cafes when he was only a teenager.
Both Morris and Iverson made their reputations as rigorous artists in rarefied mediums (contemporary dance, avant-garde jazz), but both know how to dance on the border between gravitas and pop.
Even among more rarefied company with World Cup 2018 winners France, the forward’s appreciation of space and eye for a decisive play stands out.
Never has Irish hockey reached or experienced such rarefied heights, and between the men’s national team making their breakthrough at the 2016 Olympics and now an achievement on this scale, these are extraordinarily heady times for the game here.
People are either deep in their own socio-economic struggles, or in the rarefied air of high-dollar fundraisers and national politics.
Common combinations with rarefied
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the rarefied 8×
- rarefied air 6×
- more rarefied 3×
- is rarefied 3×
- this rarefied 2×
- rarefied world 2×
- rarefied atmosphere 2×
- in rarefied 2×
- very rarefied 2×
- rarefied gas 2×