How to Use underclass in a Sentence

underclass

noun

• Still, all who belong to this new underclass are in grave danger.
  — Chuck Barney, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2021
• The conurbano has become home to an underclass preyed on by drug gangs and dirty cops.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Some worry, though, that such a group could soon become an underclass.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Country arose from the song traditions of the underclass, both black and white.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2018
• Taipei’s society is split into the wealthy you and the underclass mei.
  — Catherine Hong, New York Times, 12 July 2017
• The skills that could lift you out of the new permanent underclass are not the skills that mattered before.
  — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• What’s less clear is how any of this helps the black underclass improve its situation.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 1 June 2021
• Crime is well organized in the cities and produces an underclass of great numbers.
  — Martin Luther King Jr., The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
• Nobody wants to be part of the permanent underclass.
  — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• But China has an underclass of perhaps half a billion who are not content.
  — WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
• Then there is the ubiquitous underclass.
  — Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
• Above us are the elites with their champagne and free jazz; below us, the suppurating underclass.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2018
• If friend groups seem ubiquitous, so does a quiet underclass of people like me, bemoaning their lack of them.
  — Jenny Singer, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
• Seeing only a black underclass ignores the growth of the black middle and upper classes.
  — Gil Troy, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
• Most take place in the French countryside and focus on members of the working class or underclass.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
• Nevertheless, the underclasses are the key pieces as far as the future of the program.
  — Alvaro Montano, Houston Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2018
• The abrupt announcement leaves hundreds of underclass students in the lurch about where to finish their degrees.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
• Nurse has been a starter since her freshman season, a mainstay on two national title teams as an underclass player.
  — Paul Doyle, courant.com, 30 June 2017
• Their songs take a stand for immigrants and the underclass, and against toxic masculinity.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Or that the art world is supposed to be more refined than Hollywood and less prone to torturing its underclass?
  — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• With that group returning intact, fans clamored for new blood — an infusion of talent from the underclass ranks.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• But perhaps most of all, Wong was sensitive to otherness and underclass.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
• And that there's a permanent underclass that is racially stratified, and that's very hard for people to escape.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
• Now as much as any time in the past, there is an underclass, people who are neglected or forgotten in society, and are despised.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Apr. 2019
• There are many ways to address it, short of letting the addicts feed their disease and thereby create a permanent underclass of users.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Johnson belongs to a new and growing underclass who work inside some of the world's wealthiest companies.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
• Bong considers the plight of a family from the literal underclass that, after a guest brings them a good-luck stone, starts to plot a path out of the gutter.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019
• The uncomfortable truth is that the welfare system has created the underclass.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• Even before the potato blight, there was a degree of hunger among the Irish rural underclass that seemed like an ugly remnant of a receding past.
  — Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
• Over time, that would mean creating a permanent underclass that grows with every generation.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2026