How to Use upper-class in a Sentence

upper-class

1 of 2 adjective

• The upper-class men have taken the reins, and the young guys have followed them.
  — Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
• Middle- and upper-class women began to pre-book male midwives.
  — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
• The upper-class curtain hangs in front of the seat and brushes against the passenger's crotch on takeoff.
  — Gary Stoller, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• Stock portfolios and home prices have soared, giving middle- and upper-class households an extra boost.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• Sophie is cosplaying as an upper-class lady.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
• In the 1990s, earning six figures was a clear marker of upper-class wealth.
  — Mike Winters, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
• The first episode, for example, delves into how the 1% tends to downplay their upper-class status.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• Still, many middle and upper-class Iranian women chose not to wear the hijab.
  — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
• Is Christie presenting Nevile as the epitome of an upper-class toff?
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
• The play follows two upper-class wives who, left alone while their husbands are away, rekindle memories of past romances over drinks.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
• Louis, then 4, still often sported shorts at outings, as upper-class British boys are known to wear shorts in their younger years.
  — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
• Working-class residents battle with an upper-class outsider regarding the best way to kill the shark.
  — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
• Whereas middle- and upper-class homes had bathtubs by the 1890s, most tenements had none.
  — Jacob Beckert, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2025
• With its big scandals and even bigger wigs, the series whisks viewers through upper-class London at a time of huge social change.
  — Vicky Smith, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• There will always be members of the upper-class that may be considered exceptional and vice versa.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• Even in Calabasas alone, there’s such a disparity between much more middle-class homes and then very, very upper-class ones.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
• Lulu is rescued from the streets by an upper-class man and remakes herself according to the desires of her admirers.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• This reflected the taste of upper-class urbanites, but snails were still eaten in the eastern provinces of France.
  — Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
• Ann is his childhood sweetheart, but upper-class Helen falls for him, too – and her mother has designs on Artie’s wealth.
  — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024
• Middle and upper-class people would have wanted special implements for drinking these beverages and a place to drink it.
  — James Doubek, NPR, 3 July 2026
• Gigi, who wears A-line skirts and strappy, coral sandals, is the picture of upper-class island cosmopolitanism.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
• Conversations around screen time tend to center middle- or to upper-class norms, values, and realities.
  — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 21 July 2025
• Drawing was fundamental to the training of artists and the education of upper-class children.
  — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• Two upper-class wives, their husbands away for the day, share a few toasts to their pre-marital dalliances—with the same man, who just may be en route from France to visit.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025
• Two upper-class wives, their husbands away for the day, share a few toasts to their pre-marital dalliances – with the same man, who just may be en route from France to visit.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2026
• But by the 1520s, the birds were being raised in Spain and served on the dinner tables of the upper-class, Smith writes.
  — Natalie Escobar, NPR, 26 Nov. 2025
• Thus, the afternoon tea was born, and upper-class Brits soon found that the snack became an integral part of their conviviality.
  — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025
• Morton was born into an upper-class family in England around 1579 and later worked as a lawyer.
  — Colleen Connolly, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• The building was constructed in 1806, and once served as a college preparatory high school for upper-class students.
  — Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
• Just 20 years ago, those making $170,000 were considered upper-class.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025

upper class

2 of 2 noun

• But Achane is in the upper class of running backs.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
• The value of their ticket to the upper class has grown.
  — Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
• Maybe the answer is not that all upper class cabins should be child-free.
  — Cnt Editors, CNT, 21 Sep. 2017
• Looks a lot like welfare for the middle and upper classes to me.
  — Byline, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2018
• The monarch threw grand daytime soirees to mingle with Britain's upper class.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 May 2019
• Washlets once again made bidets something for the upper classes.
  — Maria Teresa Hart, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2018
• Some neighborhoods in Brooklyn are now home to the upper class.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• Those who well dressed and seemed like belonged to an upper class and dominant caste were not singled out.
  — Priyali Sur, CNN, 15 Apr. 2020
• Unlike in England, there was no upper class and lower class.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
• Perhaps this is the impact for change — upper class white people dying.
  — Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Nail art has been around since ancient Egypt, when members of the upper class dyed their nails with henna.
  — Arabelle Sicardi, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2023
• Dickie was treated a certain way by other people of the same upper class.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
• Add to that the fact that large-scale entrepreneurship tends to expand wealth among those who are already in the upper class.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 19 June 2022
• The posset was actually consumed by the wealthy and those in the upper class.
  — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2023
• Many of them hail from the middle and upper class, with nice homes and college educations.
  — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024
• As a result, the upper class turned to shiny, reflective glass to decorate their homes.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 5 July 2022
• Guy Ritchie has another film in the works that doubles down on the British upper class.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 May 2024
• Among women of the upper class with means, Lister was hardly alone in forging her own kind of life.
  — Jeanna Kadlec, Longreads, 7 June 2019
• Much of today’s upper class is engaged in a frenzy of self-improvement.
  — Vanessa Grigoriadis, New York Times, 30 May 2018
• Together, these clues suggest the upper class scaled back their most egregious displays of wealth.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
• 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
• And the formal attire of the upper class continues to define the strict dress code today.
  — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
• The grave goods suggest the deceased were members of society's upper class.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
• Amid a transitional era for college football, that’s a win for the little guys of this sport ruled by an upper class.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 31 Dec. 2021
• Virgin Atlantic is adding a dose of club atmosphere to its upper class cabins.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2021
• Three-to-four-year-olds are in the baby class, four-to-five-year-olds in the middle class, and five-to-six-year-olds in the upper class.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 16 Jan. 2020
• 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
• In declaring war on the upper class that made him, Carlson joined a long, volatile lineage of combatants against the élite.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• O’Hara plays Moira Rose, a former soap opera star who is forced to move from the upper class to a motel in a small town.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
• By then, the British upper classes had moved on to French luxuries like truffles and oysters.
  — Matt Giles, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2017