How to Use caste in a Sentence
caste
noun- He was from a higher caste.
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That comes with his caste and class.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
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Each caste has its own special role and its own place to live.
—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 17 July 2017
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The glossy toothed leaves are dark green with a bluish caste, and the berries are bright red.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Oct. 2022
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The big issue with caste is who is inside the caste system and who is outside.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
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Delpy suggested that there was a sort of caste system within the world of refugees.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
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After nine days, more foragers had died than ants of any other caste; all of the queens were still alive.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2018
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Police said the four men, all from an upper caste, have been arrested.
—Fox News, 30 Sep. 2020
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Roughly 70 players show up, and there is a caste system of sorts.
—Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 18 May 2018
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The classroom caste system of fashion has always been around.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
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At the same time, a new caste of oligarchs emerged, many with close personal ties to Putin.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
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Tier 2 quarterbacks would be most hurt by the system; then again, this isn't a caste system.
—Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2017
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For more than a decade, their water source was separate from that of higher-caste villages.
—Tricia Taormina, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2017
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Chandan doesn’t want to be identified as someone from an oppressed caste.
—Anupama Chopra, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Their goal proved to be the expansion of a racial caste system in peacetime thought to have been abolished through war.
—Time, 15 Sep. 2022
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The right not to be offended may be a concession to an emerging caste system.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Feb. 2021
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Her feeling, her idea—and it’s not born with her—is that race is secondary, that a caste system is primary.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
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The guru gold rush has created a growing caste system of monks, healers, and guides.
—Mike Albo, Town & Country, 26 Sep. 2019
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The Ramayana has hundreds of versions — across states, dialects, castes.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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And at that time, in the showbiz caste system, television hovered close to the bottom.
—Vogue, 26 Feb. 2015
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But ants in the reproductive caste, whose sole job is to lay eggs, can live 10 to 16 months.
—Yao-Hua Law, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
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Of its 21 members, only two were women and the rest were largely upper-caste men.
—New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
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At that time, many people strongly believed in the Hindu caste system.
—Neha J Hiranandani, Quartz India, 16 Oct. 2019
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The man had an eye for the intricate codes of social expression, the cipher systems of caste.
—Sven Birkerts, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
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This idea of the untouchable, the lowest caste in the hierarchy.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2025
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To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies.
—Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 18 June 2026
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And as Indians have settled in other parts of the world, the caste system has followed them.
—Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
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His face was bronzed by the desert sun, his features were hard and stern and to emphasize the caste a pair of navy 44s were slung from his belt.
—Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
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Raulji went so far as to suggest that the men’s status as high-caste Hindus argued in favor of their freedom.
—Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
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The term was then extended to include multiple groups outside the upper castes.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
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