Example sentences for: bourgeois

How can you use “bourgeois” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I am skeptical of historical analogies, even though Weimar Germany and post-Communist Russia never completed their "bourgeois revolutions" that led to stability (look how well Germany is doing today).

  • Lewis describes the civil rights elite as bourgeois folks who enjoyed fund-raisers but had never known the billy club and "tended to look down through a telescope at the little people."

  • Other than my parents, I really knew of only one type of Jew: cerebral bourgeois kids-to-college suburbanites.

  • It’s now decidedly bourgeois, although the original Kranzler at the west end of Unter den Linden between Friedrichstraße and the Brandenburg Gate was a hotbed of radical intellectuals in 1848.

  • For most Italians, particularly the peasant, worker, and petit bourgeois, war in uniform was their first real experience of Italian nationality.


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