How to Use second-class in a Sentence

second-class

1 of 2 adjective

• In this sect, women are viewed as second-class and subservient to men.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 22 June 2023
• These come in first- and second-class options across all age categories.
  — Lyndsey Matthews, AFAR Media, 2 July 2025
• The teen has been charged with reckless homicide, a second-class felony, per the update.
  — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
• From this point on, first-class seats are in compartments, while second-class seats are airline-style.
  — Elle Benson Easton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
• Girls are not second-class citizens, so why are they being treated that way?
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2024
• The Second Amendment is not a second-class right.
  — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
• Someone riding a bus or even walking as a means of transport is viewed as a second-class citizen.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
• Raising girls in a world where women are often treated as second-class citizens isn’t easy.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Mar. 2025
• To be Arab or Black, even with a French passport, was often to be made to feel second-class.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• For 23 years, the rowdy blue agent of chaos lived as a second-class citizen at Disney.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 2 June 2025
• The Baptists of Virginia were also held in second-class status.
  — Adam Jortner, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
• Those cases want women to be drafted, but remain second-class citizens.
  — Wendy Murphy, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
• Mother and daughter left home still second-class citizens of a country that had been ruled by white people for three centuries.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
• But to willingly accept second-class status would devastate their brands.
  — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 11 July 2025
• But going mostly digital doesn’t make for a second-class experience of these movies.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 May 2024
• Mindanaoans had felt like second-class Filipinos for longer than the country had been independent.
  — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• Women are second-class citizens and must cover their hair and wear loose-fitting clothing in all public spaces.
  — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026
• Women deemed second-class citizens.
  — Teresa Leger Fernández, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• Catholic women have long complained of second-class status in an institution that reserves the priesthood for men.
  — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
• As the latter became emblematic of comfort and success, the former came to be seen as down-market or second-class.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2026
• First, non-Jewish residents have long been treated as second-class citizens.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
• The comedy as a second-class sibling to the drama is a notion that has annoyed the people who make television comedies for years.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 June 2025
• No more treating the people who make movies possible as second-class citizens in their own celebration.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
• This speaks to a broader issue of human rights violations against girls and women who are still treated as second-class citizens.
  — Lipi Roy, Md, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
• Free public markets let anyone own anything but retail investors often still feel like second-class citizens in the world of finance.
  — Philip Maymin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
• Catholic women's groups that have long accused the Vatican of treating women as second-class citizens praised the change.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
• These are highly competitive guys who, for the most part, don’t like being considered, well, second-class citizens, in a sense.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
• First, ‘finishers’ makes those players seem more involved than mere ‘substitutes’, which sounds distinctly second-class.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
• Though the Mountain West is a second-class conference, the Aztecs would in no way be second-class citizens.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• But in practice, these migrants often have been treated by their homeland as second-class citizens, stripped of their right to take part in national elections.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023

second class

2 of 2 noun

• The airline offers special services for travelers in first and second class.
• She got an upper second class in English at Oxford.
• They were then allowed to go to their second class of the day.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 29 Oct. 2018
• The second class has a top speed of 20mph with throttle assist.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
• Harris, then six and in the first grade, was in the second class of children to be bused up the mountain.
  — Noemie Emery, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• If there are more than 22, the district can open a second class, officials said.
  — Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• With growth harder to come by, Apple can’t afford to treat them as second class anymore.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Odds drop off after Scheffler into a second class of contenders.
  — Ajc Sports, AJC.com, 4 Apr. 2026
• In the supply chain, truck drivers are treated as second class citizens.
  — Lora Cecere, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• There's a second class of true believer, and that's really the crypto.
  — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2022
• There's a number of people on the court who feel that religion has becomes almost like a second class right.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• But in a second class where the teacher gave the course, a shocked student refused to leave the room and told her father about what happened.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
• The first class is loyal, the second class is disloyal, and the lower class waverings.
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Oct. 2017
• Taylor was the prize of Luke Fickell’s second class as the head coach of Cincinnati.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• This second class of startups were selected from more than 100 applicants from around the world.
  — William Thornton [email protected], AL.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• This is the second class action filed against the automakers in the Eastern District.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2023
• The high school bell schedule for the first and second class periods has been aligned with the bell schedules for other high schools throughout the county.
  — David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2021
• And there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools.
  — Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 9 Sep. 2024
• They're still treated like second class citizens, and aren't permitted to live outside the Citadel for very long.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2017
• The shooter enters the school and begins shooting into a classroom, which is connected to a second class.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 27 May 2022
• There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2019
• For the second class, 36 business owners applied for 11 available slots.
  — Don Lee Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• Roberts, who was in the second class that graduated in 1954, joined the department the same year.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• The second class is composed of HLAs that present antigens found outside of the cell to T-helper cells.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Councilman Scott Willis was the lone vote in favor of moving Westfield to a second class city.
  — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
• Robert Edwin Kline was a 22-year-old gunner's mate second class when he was killed on the Arizona.
  — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
• Salay said this is the second class Kellwell has done, the first being in Marion County.
  — Mary Alford, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
• There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day.
  — Erica Frankenberg, The Conversation, 19 July 2019
• And there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day.
  — NBC News, 30 June 2019
• There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2020