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.

  • But so were the antagonisms that had long separated middle- and upper-class blacks from their sharecropper cousins.

  • Never having been to either West Lake Hills or Topanga, I can only go on the little Lemann gives us to grasp what makes a place "truly hip," but let me go ahead and see if I don't have the whole picture--uh, upper-class, white, Protestant children with dreadlocks, tattoos, and nascent heroin addictions playing in bad rock bands named after legendary 1970s TV sitcoms?

  • 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.

  • In the romantic comedies of the '30s-- It Happened One Night , My Man Godfrey --the wan, indifferent upper-class beauty is humanized by her contact with ordinary working-class life, but those days are over.


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