Example sentences for: bourgeoisie

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

  • Farther down, urban Malays form a modern bourgeoisie, cultivating contacts with the Arab Middle East and keeping only a remote eye on their country estates.

  • First Davis accuses the bourgeoisie of misdirected anxieties, then he urges them to wake up and worry.

  • Then the peasants and bourgeoisie were expected to live lives of probity, while the king and his court whored and plundered as they pleased.

  • 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.

  • The stubborn aristocracy and high clergy were anxious to protect their ancient privileges; a burgeoning bourgeoisie longed for reforms that would give them greater opportunity; the peasantry was no longer prepared to bear the burden of feudal extortion; and a growing urban populace of artisans groaned under intolerable hardships.


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