Example sentences for: bourgeoisie

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

  • The bourgeoisie showed off its new prosperity with extravagant furnishings, silks, satins, and baubles, and in 1852 Paris opened its first department store, Au Bon Marché.

  • Nonetheless, Daniel Ortega and the boys deserve some credit for a censorship policy that prevented their countrymen from being exposed to Oliver's Story , which they saw as an example of class betrayal (a heroic working-class girl takes a place in the ruling class) and Annie Hall (too occupied with the trivial problems of the petite bourgeoisie).

  • Under pressure from the poorer classes, who did not want the Revolution appropriated for the exclusive benefit of the bourgeoisie, the Jacobin-led revolutionary committee ordered sweeping measures of economic and social reform, which were accompanied by a wave of mass executions, the Terror, aimed at moderates as well as aristocrats.

  • Leigh must provide a narrative, so a third of the way into the picture, Hannah announces that she has made a series of appointments with real-estate agents to see deluxe apartments; the girls can pretend to be swells and see how the haute bourgeoisie live.

  • The strident defense of Farrakhan by middle-class students bespoke Farrakhan's growing popularity with the black bourgeoisie.


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