Example sentences for: castes

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

  • Separating the worker and reproductive castes by genetics—other social insects do this by environment, that is, by rearing workers and reproductives differently—may allow selection to operate more efficiently on each lineage, and the workers may benefit from hybrid vigor: field researchers report them as being highly aggressive.

  • In the spirit of his grandfather and mother, Rajiv Gandhi and the Congress party sought to improve the lot of the lower castes and minorities while modernizing India.

  • The human castes came from Purusa, too: His arms became the warrior, his legs the commoner, and his feet the serf.

  • Compilers of our dictionaries should stop capitalizing the words for the four Hindu castes and retain the custom only for Brahma or Brahman when it implies the Absolute.

  • Untouchables pressed for better treatment, but their cause was not helped by the activism of American missionaries and the Salvation Army, who gave other castes a good excuse to resist “foreign interference. ”


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