Examples of plebs in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web His singing and theatrics and chariot racing offended their sense of decorum, while also garnering adoration of the plebs, threatening the precarious balance of power. — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 17 June 2021 The plebs’s relative impoverishment in the wake of this would help give rise to an array of demagogues—and eventually the collapse of the Roman republic. — Win Mccormack, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021 Political and economic elites fear nothing more than the plebs of the world uniting to challenge their rule, which is what sublime solidarity aims to do. — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2019

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