Example sentences for: lumpenproletariat

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

  • There are underdogs of a kind in his books--McCoy in Bonfire and the good family man Conrad Hensley in A Man in Full . But what horrifies the reader is that these sympathetic figures should sink into America's degraded lumpenproletariat . The lower orders in Wolfe's novels, such as those who populate the jail where Conrad Hensley is imprisoned, are barely above the level of animals.

  • Talk show host Jerry Springer, the ringmaster of a lumpenproletariat circus, is enjoying a wonderful month.

  • She understood what it meant to be lumpenproletariat , and made it her life's project to explain this outsiderness to America.


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