How to Use underclass in a Sentence

underclass

noun

• Just think about how many things we (overlook): The lives of the underclass, or the angry.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 June 2018
• On the underclass team were Matthew Raab and John Talbot.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2018
• The conurbano has become home to an underclass preyed on by drug gangs and dirty cops.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Country arose from the song traditions of the underclass, both black and white.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2018
• Taipei’s society is split into the wealthy you and the underclass mei.
  — Catherine Hong, New York Times, 12 July 2017
• As played by the terrific Tom Brooke, Fagan makes his way to the queen’s bedroom and awakens her for a chat about the plight of the underclass.
  — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
• Still, all who belong to this new underclass are in grave danger.
  — Chuck Barney, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2021
• Nevertheless, the underclasses are the key pieces as far as the future of the program.
  — Alvaro Montano, Houston Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2018
• Some worry, though, that such a group could soon become an underclass.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Most take place in the French countryside and focus on members of the working class or underclass.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
• In this way, the strong got stronger and the weak became a kind of permanent N.F.L. underclass of franchises that did not draw fans and tended to fold.
  — Rich Cohen, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Crime is well organized in the cities and produces an underclass of great numbers.
  — Martin Luther King Jr., The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
• Above us are the elites with their champagne and free jazz; below us, the suppurating underclass.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2018
• What’s less clear is how any of this helps the black underclass improve its situation.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 1 June 2021
• The abrupt announcement leaves hundreds of underclass students in the lurch about where to finish their degrees.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
• Bong considers the plight of a family from the literal underclass that, after a guest brings them a good-luck stone, starts to plot a path out of the gutter.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019
• Now in his mid-70s, Mr. Fraser most likely looks back upon his life as one led in service to the ideal of the emancipation of the underclass.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• Or that the art world is supposed to be more refined than Hollywood and less prone to torturing its underclass?
  — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Seeing only a black underclass ignores the growth of the black middle and upper classes.
  — Gil Troy, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
• But China has an underclass of perhaps half a billion who are not content.
  — WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
• In those days, the floor of New York Harbor was covered in oyster reefs, making the bivalve a cheap and plentiful snack for the underclass of the rapidly growing city.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2018
• Will the passengers on Snowpiercer outlive the climate crisis, or will the underclass be doomed to live miserably in a metal tube for the rest of their lives?
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Like Peele, Bong makes the eerie suggestion that the underclass might literally exist below the feet of the bourgeoisie.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019
• Paul also befriends his cleaning woman (Hong Chau), and follows her home to a find city behind the city, a Leisure Land underclass where there is little leisure.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• There are many ways to address it, short of letting the addicts feed their disease and thereby create a permanent underclass of users.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Their songs take a stand for immigrants and the underclass, and against toxic masculinity.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Now as much as any time in the past, there is an underclass, people who are neglected or forgotten in society, and are despised.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Apr. 2019
• Among the employees, mostly low-wage Latinos, there is a growing sense of being an invisible underclass in the sport of kings.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 21 June 2019
• Others fall into a rut of muddling along, a permanent socio-economic underclass the existence of which should cause the rest of us to feel shame.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
• Mass immigration of low-skilled laborers—farm workers, child-care workers, gardeners, and so on—will create an economic underclass in the United States.
  — Noah Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024