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:

  • Tarzan and John Carter were both exemplars of Anglo-Saxon masculinity--Tarzan, the heir to an aristocratic English family, and John Carter, an upper-class Virginian by birth.

  • Products have evoked cool (Ray Ban sunglasses) or competence (Sub Zero refrigerators), upper-class aspirations (Ralph Lauren home furnishings) or adolescent rebellion (just about any snowboard).

  • Modern men have been saddled with an image of strong simplicity, the neat suggestion of an upper-class sporting and military milieu.

  • If one judges their communities by the standards of middle- and upper-class WASP bohemians from Middle America (Starbucks coffee shops and vegetarian restaurants), yeah, they're going to come up short.

  • 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.


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