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:

  • Subscribing, like Bill Clinton, to the idea that suburban voters don't like Democrats enamored of liberal spending programs, Gore sandwiches his generosity toward the poor between more middle-class friendly ideas.

  • Some recipients grew up poor and want to give back, while others feel the need despite having a middle-class upbringing.

  • When Susan Faludi and Naomi Wolf, for instance, talk about the beauty industry, they sound like suspicious middle-class ladies eyeing a Chanel counter at Saks--they'll resist those foreign wiles!

  • The Alexanders, middle-class black leaders who were uncomfortable with street protest, detested Moore.

  • The surrealist art world was like an opening onto a plane of reality that a middle-class unmarried son and brother, a commuter and breadwinner with solitary hobbies and an autodidact's knowledge of the history of theater, of opera, and of dance, might otherwise have never entered.


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