Example sentences for: middle-class

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

  • The strident defense of Farrakhan by middle-class students bespoke Farrakhan's growing popularity with the black bourgeoisie.

  • On the positive side, most say the acting is great, and though the film "doesn't take enormous chances," it is nevertheless "extremely satisfying" (Denby, The New Yorker ). Slate 's Edelstein is more positive than most, praising the "deliciously resonant dual setting: a Catskills summer community to which middle-class Jews from the city migrate to swim and eat and play mah-jongg, and the gathering hippies at nearby Woodstock."

  • As for "middle-class mores," a culture eager to embrace the V-chip surely subscribes to other beliefs besides the desirability of transgression at any cost.

  • His Hue and Cry and, later, Elbow Room , spoke directly to that integrationist experience, to the complexities (and confusions) of inhabiting an environment where, say, white people valued aspects of black culture, like the blues, that my own firmly middle-class family had long since discarded.

  • They demand subsidies and threaten to brand the middle-class with philistinism if it resists.


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