Example sentences for: bourgeoisie

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

  • Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois ; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it.

  • While the bourgeoisie’s red-brick or stone houses are clearly inspired by Georgian and Victorian London and grander residences by the country houses and châteaux of continental Europe, the working-class row houses with outside iron staircases leading to upper floors (thus saving space inside) are a more characteristic Montréal feature.

  • Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (raising funds, balancing budgets, recruiting professors, planning conferences), served as director of editorial content for a publishing imprint he co-founded, was a consultant on Steven Spielberg's Amistad , scripted and hosted a Frontline documentary on the black bourgeoisie, and developed a six-part BBC-PBS documentary on Africa--the entire continent.

  • Under Cambridge-trained lawyer Tunku Abdul Rahman, brother of the Sultan of Kedah, UMNO’s conservative Malays formed an alliance with the English-educated bourgeoisie of the Malayan Chinese Association and Malayan Indian Congress.

  • The bourgeoisie and the Bible Belt are not after all the most profitable audience; the public that is wants strong sensation, which they will to an extent measure by the language in which the films are couched.


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