How to Use caste in a Sentence

caste

noun

• He was from a higher caste.
• The glossy toothed leaves are dark green with a bluish caste, and the berries are bright red.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Oct. 2022
• Each caste has its own special role and its own place to live.
  — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 17 July 2017
• At the same time, a new caste of oligarchs emerged, many with close personal ties to Putin.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• But ants in the reproductive caste, whose sole job is to lay eggs, can live 10 to 16 months.
  — Yao-Hua Law, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• The big issue with caste is who is inside the caste system and who is outside.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
• Roughly 70 players show up, and there is a caste system of sorts.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 18 May 2018
• Delpy suggested that there was a sort of caste system within the world of refugees.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
• His face was bronzed by the desert sun, his features were hard and stern and to emphasize the caste a pair of navy 44s were slung from his belt.
  — Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• After nine days, more foragers had died than ants of any other caste; all of the queens were still alive.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2018
• Rather, Trump is the true elite, a caste of one, the übermensch who is smart, rich, and able to become president.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
• Speaking of the haves and have-nots, NBC has set up a caste system where not all sports are created equal.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
• Rahul Dambale, a Dalit activist from the nearby city of Pune, said justice for members of his caste is rare.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• Their goal proved to be the expansion of a racial caste system in peacetime thought to have been abolished through war.
  — Time, 15 Sep. 2022
• Tier 2 quarterbacks would be most hurt by the system; then again, this isn't a caste system.
  — Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2017
• In recent years, South Asians have been pushing for caste protections on the U.S.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
• But the push for caste-equity has been sweeping schools and institutions all over the U.S. in the last few years.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2022
• And at that time, in the showbiz caste system, television hovered close to the bottom.
  — Vogue, 26 Feb. 2015
• Singh Bal How India’s far right is conquering castes—and the country.
  — Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2023
• And as Indians have settled in other parts of the world, the caste system has followed them.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Here selflessness is built in to the fabric of their society, as there are sterile castes of workers who tend to the eggs of the queen.
  — Aatish Bhatia, WIRED, 15 May 2011
• The classroom caste system of fashion has always been around.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
• Police said the four men, all from an upper caste, have been arrested.
  — Fox News, 30 Sep. 2020
• On the advice of the Diana in his head, Trevor attempts to negotiate the caste system on his own terms.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 23 Aug. 2017
• Of its 21 members, only two were women and the rest were largely upper-caste men.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
• The man had an eye for the intricate codes of social expression, the cipher systems of caste.
  — Sven Birkerts, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• The caste system places people in rigid categories at birth.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 11 May 2023
• Her feeling, her idea—and it’s not born with her—is that race is secondary, that a caste system is primary.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
• Simone, with her tin ear for caste, doesn’t understand Gigi’s station.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
• In Rwanda, Sister Deborah is contending with a caste system that installed white men at the top and placed Black women at the bottom.
  — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025