Examples of petite bourgeoisie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The landed gentry hold hands with bankers, the petite bourgeoisie, and the nouveaux riche. — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021 Image This tournament, thus far, has belonged not to soccer’s great aristocratic houses, but to its petite bourgeoisie. — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 June 2018 Each mobilized men and women from a broad spectrum of the population but had particular attraction for the petite bourgeoisie. — Nancy K. Maclean, Slate Magazine, 20 Mar. 2017 The airport is to America’s petite bourgeoisie—the small-time capitalists and traveling salesmen who delivered us to Trump—what the factory is to the white working class: a symbol of how much better things used to be. — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017

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“Petite bourgeoisie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petite%20bourgeoisie. Accessed 21 May. 2022.

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