Example sentences for: lower-class

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

  • The two distinct worlds of upper-class and lower-class culture have merged into a single megaworld of pop culture.

  • Some Mexican-Americans refer to themselves as "Chicanos ," a pejorative term from the 1920s for lower-class Mexican immigrants that was embraced in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Mexican-Americans seeking a new political identity.

  • Unmaking the underclass would answer white fears while giving lower-class blacks a chance they are now largely denied: that of assimilating into the mainstream of an integrated society.

  • Staples appears to contrast the middle-class black community from the lower-class community when it appears to fit his framework but to ignore it when it does not fit within his argument.

  • As a result, some lower-class whites no longer felt singled out to carry the burden of integration.


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