Example sentences for: high-status

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

  • James Bryant Conant and Henry Chauncey play key roles, and clearly the effect of the shift to an exam like the SAT is to make it possible for those with fewer social advantages and who have not attended high-status prep schools to successfully compete for places like Harvard if they are academically able.

  • In that case, a low-status man who wants to crack the social barriers (and who cares about his offspring) must save enough to purchase high-status mates for both himself and his children.

  • On the high-status but low-interest White House beat, there is no story as exciting as that of the fall of a president.

  • Those who fell on the black side of the law often lost the rights to vote, to hold high-status jobs, and to defend their persons and property in the courts.

  • Indeed, in some cultures, permissible infidelity is paired with stigmatized divorce as part of the family-values formula: high-status males get a mistress as compensation for sticking with their aging wives.


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