Example sentences for: upper-class

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

  • And much of what he describes is dully familiar: There is a chimp Noam Chomsky and a chimp Liam Gallagher, and upper-class chimps read The New Yorker .

  • Because they all came from upper-class families, they were educated in Spanish traditions and language and consequently ignored the mestizo (mixed-race) and indigenous aspects of the culture, often depicting their past in romantic pastoral terms.

  • So is the disparity between the value that Hutchison and her supporters apparently put on at-home work done by middle- and upper-class spouses and the contributions of women farther down the income scale.

  • Lemann's silly, misinformed article completely ignores issues of class and ethnicity while presenting the giant chain stores of mall America (Borders, Starbucks) and the passing trends of middle America upper-class youth (leaflets on telephone poles, Anglophile raves) as some sort of ideal.

  • The daughter of an upper-class Charleston, S.C., minister who has died just before the book begins, she is struggling to make her old farm profitable.


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