How to Use caste in a Sentence

caste

noun

• He was from a higher caste.
• 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
• The country mourns Nia Wilson through protest; in India, a dominant caste wants more.
  — Jennie Neufeld, Vox, 27 July 2018
• Subbu’s family spoke Telugu, belonged to a lower caste.
  — Abhijith Ravinutala, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
• Nadars have traditionally occupied a low status in the caste ladder but have risen through entrepreneurship.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2019
• The exploration of the caste system is also a bit superficial and the giddy juxtaposition of tones and genres can feel off.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019
• The decision to favor six conferences over the other five had clearly delineated college football’s castes.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 9 July 2018
• And a small effort to weaken our increasingly deep caste system in America in favor of meritocracy would be a huge benefit for us all.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 13 July 2018
• After 400 years of racial slavery, racial terrorism and racial caste, the nation must reckon with the debt (in whatever form) owed to African Americans.
  — Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, Twin Cities, 28 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Of its 21 members, only two were women and the rest were largely upper-caste men.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
• 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
• In the context of her argument, the shrink joke, with its caste and class presuppositions, cuts a little close to the bone.
  — Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• The right not to be offended may be a concession to an emerging caste system.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Feb. 2021
• The Houthi family belongs to a caste that stood at the top of the social hierarchy in northern Yemen for more than 1,000 years.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
• The politics of caste and religion are a big factor in Uttar Pradesh.
  — Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• Their forbidden, simmering romance anchors an enveloping portrait of a bygone era and a caste as vicious, in its own way, as any of the Mafia clans in Scorsese's crime movies.
  — and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 30 July 2024
• Mukherjee shows that the insurgency has flourished in districts where the British colonists ruled through traditional princes or the local landlord caste instead of with their own bureaucracy.
  — Shivaji Mukherjee, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024