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Example sentences for: downtrodden

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Jodi, while you were luxuriously riding to work in air-conditioned comfort aboard the subway, I was among the downtrodden scanning the papers in a steamy house on Martha's Vineyard.
It is a well-known fact that the Shopping Avenger keeps a special place in his heart for the downtrodden and the outcast, including, but not limited to, the poor, the indigent, the day traders, and the blind.
Once a tight-knit but downtrodden blue-collar community, the hometown of Bruce Springsteen has become a wealthy, yuppified commercial district, with lots of jobs, high taxes, and a fleet of SUVs.
And no doubt his personal compassion for society's downtrodden is real.
This hagiography, produced by Sonny Bono's widow, includes the mandatory scene of the downtrodden composer working out his masterpieces.