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:

  • A meaningless job, which anyone could have done, an undistinguished education, a home like any other in a crushingly ordinary neighborhood, a daily commute, no particular vices, and nothing to speak of in the line of contact sexuality--a white, Anglo-Saxon, middle-class life which, in external respects, was lived by innumerable unmarried sons answerable to family responsibilities, and marked by the lonely longings of a protracted virginity probably not all that unusual at the time, especially when, in Cornell's case, there were no riddling princesses to overcome his natural shyness and unprepossessing looks.

  • An honest advocate of smaller government would campaign not against elitist bureaucrats but against nice middle-class retirees in their Florida condominiums.

  • Yet thanks to the efforts of conservative Clinton-haters and a scandal-hungry press, it has become a "major story" that threatens to undermine the valuable work Clinton has done in boosting our nation's economy, cleaning up our environment, advancing the needs of the poor and middle-class, supporting a woman's right to choose, making improvements in our education system a top priority, and asserting both American might and values abroad.

  • The consensus seems to be that soccer moms are some subset of middle-class, white suburban women.

  • Or, earnest professionals fresh from college, technology freaks on the cusp between computer games and the Internet, dedicated defenders of society and protectors of truth, middle-class guardians of all that is good and nice, power freaks and culture groupies urgently seeking out the newest trend so they can play hipper-than-thou at the next person to notice it.


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