How to Use bourgeoisie in a Sentence

bourgeoisie

noun

• The title is a comment on the distance to the bourgeoisie.
  — Vogue, 7 Sep. 2021
• Of course, the bourgeoisie also has a dark side, just ask Luis Bunuel.
  — Vogue, 14 Dec. 2017
• People felt that the U.S. conspired with the bourgeoisie to give him a coup and twice to push him out.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• First the bourgeoisie, the middle class, would gain power.
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2017
• Did your mother get to view your works that were critiques of the Black bourgeoisie?
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• Tired of the world’s shams, the hypocrisies of class, and the shallowness of the bourgeoisie, the sailor returns, quite literally, to the sea.
  — J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
• But the named changed in 1853 when François Goyard took over the high-end travel luggage of the French bourgeoisie.
  — David Turner, Esquire, 20 Mar. 2017
• Is this a critique—are the objects pawns in a high-end game of épater la bourgeoisie?
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2017
• In the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, a poor black person cannot be free.
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2022
• In this case, however, the classes are not the workers and the bourgeoisie but, rather, men and women.
  — Louise Perry, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• Built in the 10th century, the grand castle once belonged to one of the region’s largest bourgeoisie.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
• Trogneux was born to a bourgeoisie family of chocolatiers, the youngest of six children.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 7 May 2017
• What would the Dutch master make of his posthumous fame among the bourgeoisie and the billionaires alike?
  — John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
• In Group B, meanwhile, the soccer bourgeoisie is a little safer.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 24 June 2018
• Having it all District VII would have been a grand place to be in 1910, when the city’s grand bourgeoisie rubbed elbows with louche literati.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• All these high places, the upper class or the bourgeoisie … all of this Western construct is falling apart.
  — Catherine Annie Hollingsworth, miamiherald, 3 June 2018
• But there are also signs of the bourgeoisie trying to return to normal.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2021
• The bourgeoisie elite have finally given the black man from Chicago a seat at the table.
  — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 30 Mar. 2018
• These were the redoubts of the despised haute bourgeoisie, who lounged in ease while the rest of France languished, and riot was the answer to that inequity.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Indeed, Rosalind may be a scion of the haute bourgeoisie, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been pain and suffering in her life.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
• Some people talk about his movies being a criticism of the bourgeoisie class, or stuff like that.
  — Lisa Weidenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
• Posters were hung all over the campus, with slogans like down with the red bourgeoisie, riot police filled the streets, then sealed off the campus.
  — Vogue, 16 Aug. 2016
• Before that, novels were about the upper classes, or the bourgeoisie, but never the people who work or the poor.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• This is hardly the picture of haute bourgeoisie nightmares.
  — Noemie Emery, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• In many European countries the bourgeoisie tried to seize power with guns.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Who cares about the finances and family problems of the petit bourgeoisie?
  — Francine Prose, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• Entering the under-the-radar historic gem feels like stepping back in time and getting to play bourgeoisie for a half hour.
  — Jaimie Potters, Marie Claire, 29 May 2019
• The Tories and Labour almost appear to have switched places: The latter represents the bourgeoisie while the former is the party of the working man.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 26 Feb. 2020
• From the vantage point of a high-rolling hedge fund manager, anybody earning less than $10 million resides strictly within the petit bourgeoisie.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• These men and women were members of the Jewish grand bourgeoisie whose immigrant forefathers had acquired great fortunes in banking and trade and moved to France because of the freedoms and business opportunities the country offered.
  — David A. Bell, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024