How to Use third class in a Sentence

third class

noun
  • She got a third class in English.
  • The third class, which would be sold to the public in the IPO, has only one vote per share.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Meanwhile, the board chose not to add a third class in boys and girls tennis.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
  • Can Piedmont win its third Class 3A title in the last five years?
    Josh Bean | Jbean@al.com, al, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The third class is the risk of market acceptance of a new product.
    Arie Brish, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Collins was selected as part of the third class of astronauts in 1963.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 June 2019
  • In the third class, Paula instructs us to write our fears and worries about fatherhood on a flip chart.
    Claire Lynch, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The possibility of this third class has been discussed in the U.S. for decades.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • This one was third class: completely open, with bunk beds on both sides, and it was packed with people.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The possibility of this third class has been in play since 2012.
    Martha Rumore, STAT, 13 July 2022
  • That turned into a guest lecture for another class and then for a third class.
    Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021
  • But only one privy for every hundred bunks on the City of Berlin and no deck below in third class: for six nights, the same foul air.
    Vona Groarke, The New York Review of Books, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Sington was a member of the third class inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 9 Mar. 2020
  • He was honorably discharged as a radioman third class after the war.
    Will Dudding, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Bostic was part of the third class of flight attendants, starting in April 1972, less than a year after Southwest Airlines’ very first flight.
    Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • In Duff’s third class of the day, the students, some of whom have autism, play a more traditional version of basketball with smaller, foam balls.
    Kate Magill, Howard County Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • No traveler would be sleeping below deck in third class.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In third class, the feistiest of the Kates strikes up a shipboard romance; on a snootier deck, beleaguered steward Etches (Daniels) keeps chasing Alice out of the first-class area.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
  • This was the third class to graduate from the specialty court, which launched officially on Veterans Day in 2017.
    Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • McGregor could have potentially won a title in a third class in the fight, which no UFC fighter has accomplished.
    Jenna West, SI.com, 6 June 2018
  • The third class of drugs, which can only be accessed from a pharmacist, is is what many other countries have instituted.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Bloomberg Philanthropies also selected six other cities for its third class of grantees.
    Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The passengers are divided into first, second and third classes and are treated that way, even during the crisis.
    Tom Titus, Daily Pilot, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Westfield is currently a third class city, and the only one in Hamilton County without second class status.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 19 May 2022
  • Those in the third class were generally poorer, and one-class cruising was not introduced until many years later.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Barry Odom’s third class as Missouri’s football coach is very similar to his previous ones.
    Alex Schiffer, kansascity, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Westfield city councilors voted 6-1 Monday night against approving an ordinance that would move the government from a third class to a second class city.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
  • Wednesday marks the official announcement of the third class of athletes the collective has connected with charities through NIL deals.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2023
  • There has been considerable debate over the last few decades about creating a third class of behind-the-counter drugs that can be bought only after consulting with a pharmacist.
    Martha Rumore, STAT, 13 July 2022
  • To use violence against the oppression and be part of the problem; or to be silent and live as a second or a third class citizen without any rights, where his or her dignity will be destroyed or affected.
    Batya Ungar-Sargon, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019

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