Example sentences for: upper-middle-class

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

  • an upper-middle-class Porky's , American Pie is unable to transcend its own dirty mind.

  • Shock is expressed at the upper-middle-class New Jersey community's blasé reaction to rape (boys boasted about it in their yearbook).

  • A tall, athletic man who favors pleated khakis and starched button-down shirts, Zucker grew up in an upper-middle-class enclave in the west San Fernando Valley, far from the poverty he now sees every day.

  • And I guess what I mean by a revival of liberalism is more the inevitably silly-looking but ultimately more-good-than-bad kind of guilty, upper-middle-class and rich-person liberalism that makes excess impolitic and unstylish, the way it was before 1982, and increases the (individual) American impulse toward philanthropy and generosity.

  • Could his cartoonishness be an indication of how defensive Spielberg, who like nearly all upper-middle-class Americans of his generation didn't serve in Vietnam, feels regarding the military and its virtues?


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