How to Use underclass in a Sentence
underclass
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Just think about how many things we (overlook): The lives of the underclass, or the angry.
—James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 June 2018
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On the underclass team were Matthew Raab and John Talbot.
—Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2018
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The conurbano has become home to an underclass preyed on by drug gangs and dirty cops.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
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Country arose from the song traditions of the underclass, both black and white.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2018
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Taipei’s society is split into the wealthy you and the underclass mei.
—Catherine Hong, New York Times, 12 July 2017
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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
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Still, all who belong to this new underclass are in grave danger.
—Chuck Barney, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2021
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Nevertheless, the underclasses are the key pieces as far as the future of the program.
—Alvaro Montano, Houston Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2018
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Some worry, though, that such a group could soon become an underclass.
—Liz Alderman, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
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Most take place in the French countryside and focus on members of the working class or underclass.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
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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
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Crime is well organized in the cities and produces an underclass of great numbers.
—Martin Luther King Jr., The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
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Above us are the elites with their champagne and free jazz; below us, the suppurating underclass.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2018
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What’s less clear is how any of this helps the black underclass improve its situation.
—Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 1 June 2021
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The abrupt announcement leaves hundreds of underclass students in the lurch about where to finish their degrees.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Seeing only a black underclass ignores the growth of the black middle and upper classes.
—Gil Troy, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
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But China has an underclass of perhaps half a billion who are not content.
—WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Their songs take a stand for immigrants and the underclass, and against toxic masculinity.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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Before the concept of the viral underclass emerged, the underclass was already thought of as a contagion, one with a distinct geography.
—Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
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