How to Use bourgeoisie in a Sentence

bourgeoisie

noun

• Of course, the bourgeoisie also has a dark side, just ask Luis Bunuel.
  — Vogue, 14 Dec. 2017
• Did your mother get to view your works that were critiques of the Black bourgeoisie?
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• Is this a critique—are the objects pawns in a high-end game of épater la bourgeoisie?
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2017
• But there are also signs of the bourgeoisie trying to return to normal.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2021
• In the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, a poor black person cannot be free.
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2022
• Some people talk about his movies being a criticism of the bourgeoisie class, or stuff like that.
  — Lisa Weidenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
• Trogneux was born to a bourgeoisie family of chocolatiers, the youngest of six children.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 7 May 2017
• One man gives shivers to banks, businesspeople and the bourgeoisie.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2017
• In this case, however, the classes are not the workers and the bourgeoisie but, rather, men and women.
  — Louise Perry, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• In many European countries the bourgeoisie tried to seize power with guns.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Who cares about the finances and family problems of the petit bourgeoisie?
  — Francine Prose, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• In Group B, meanwhile, the soccer bourgeoisie is a little safer.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 24 June 2018
• All these high places, the upper class or the bourgeoisie … all of this Western construct is falling apart.
  — Catherine Annie Hollingsworth, miamiherald, 3 June 2018
• The bourgeoisie elite have finally given the black man from Chicago a seat at the table.
  — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 30 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile, a clear line also had to be drawn between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy.
  — Henry Notaker, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
• Before that, novels were about the upper classes, or the bourgeoisie, but never the people who work or the poor.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Entering the under-the-radar historic gem feels like stepping back in time and getting to play bourgeoisie for a half hour.
  — Jaimie Potters, Marie Claire, 29 May 2019
• What would the Dutch master make of his posthumous fame among the bourgeoisie and the billionaires alike?
  — John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
• The bourgeoisie tries hard to make everything look happy and harmonious, but just on [the] surface.
  — Vogue, 7 Sep. 2021
• Posters were hung all over the campus, with slogans like down with the red bourgeoisie, riot police filled the streets, then sealed off the campus.
  — Vogue, 16 Aug. 2016
• Indeed, Rosalind may be a scion of the haute bourgeoisie, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been pain and suffering in her life.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
• Noasis, around the corner from Base Camp, is for families of tech bourgeoisie.
  — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
• Built in the 10th century, the grand castle once belonged to one of the region’s largest bourgeoisie.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
• Lluís is an embodiment of a kind of pragmatism that reigned in those years among the Catalan bourgeoisie.
  — Colm Tóibín, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
• Tired of the world’s shams, the hypocrisies of class, and the shallowness of the bourgeoisie, the sailor returns, quite literally, to the sea.
  — J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
• Some buildings, once belonging to the rural bourgeoisie, are still adorned with wall emblems and coats of arms and have painted wooden doors.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 9 Oct. 2021
• The 19th-century bourgeoisie kept country homes as a place of refuge from urban pollution or heat.
  — The Economist, 9 Apr. 2020
• Along the way, its mystique carried from the Adriatic bourgeoisie to the boho Concorde crowd.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022
• The fervent Rilkeans of his day were mostly aristocrats and members of the haute bourgeoisie, but there were also some students and even workers who read him.
  — John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
• But where Wilder dripped acid on romance and Buñuel roasted the bourgeoisie, Almodóvar’s movies are rarely cynical.
  — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021