Examples of lower-class in a Sentence

Noun a member of the lower class

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The man who had her heart, a sailor named Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), was of a lower class. — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2022 The consumption of America’s lower class would be middle-class by European standards, and the tax burden plays a big role here too. — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Apr. 2022 Programs that were playing up that did not earn a point were returned to the lower class. — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2022 The Commonwealth's newspaper is covering up what happened at the gala when Tyler took Max hostage and claimed there's an uprising a foot amongst the lower class. — Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022 The damaging effects of the pandemic financially upended many middle and lower class households but conversely, the report points out that world’s richest have only got richer. — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 19 Jan. 2022 The bill’s original version would have applied more broadly, potentially requiring schools to lower class sizes in high-income schools and raise them in schools with a concentration of low-income students, who have greater learning needs. — oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2021 Some school principals were able to lower class sizes by rearranging class schedules, Borden said. — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2021 This required that particularly dominant teams in a lower class advance to the higher class. — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2021 See More

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