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.

  • Have an illegitimate child: This special qualifying factor, added by Clinton and the 103 rd Congress, is solely for the benefit of upper- and middle-class single mothers, who are now allowed to disregard their parents' income in applying for loans and grants.

  • And Washington lacks even the few powers that other cities have to help retain a fast-disappearing middle-class population.

  • Smart, educated Russians who just recently achieved middle-class comfort refuse to return to poverty now that the economy has collapsed.

  • There seems to be a class system of sorts--aristocrats like the Malfoys at one end, cockneys like Hagrid and the knightbus drivers in Prisoner of Azkaban at the other, with struggling middle-class civil-servant types like the Weasleys in the middle.


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