How to Use upper-class in a Sentence
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The first episode, for example, delves into how the 1% tends to downplay their upper-class status.
— Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023 -
Still, many middle and upper-class Iranian women chose not to wear the hijab.
— Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023 -
Even in the 1970s, a large, working-class family was met with a degree of wariness that middle- and upper-class families rarely are.
— Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024 -
Ann is his childhood sweetheart, but upper-class Helen falls for him, too – and her mother has designs on Artie’s wealth.
— Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024 -
While the 5-year-old royal is known for sporting shorts with knee socks, the classic look for upper-class boys in Britain, Louis has recently started to wear long pants.
— Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023 -
This brings up the next point: despite modern updates, all the women were white and from suburban, upper-class backgrounds.
— Essence, 31 Oct. 2023 -
Stock portfolios and home prices have soared, giving middle- and upper-class households an extra boost.
— Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024 -
Even in Calabasas alone, there’s such a disparity between much more middle-class homes and then very, very upper-class ones.
— Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023 -
Morton was born into an upper-class family in England around 1579 and later worked as a lawyer.
— Colleen Connolly, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023 -
Edith Wharton's Pulitzer-winning novel sings on the page, the author's deliciously wry prose painting the world of late-1800s, upper-class New York in vivid detail.
— and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 30 July 2024 -
Drawing was fundamental to the training of artists and the education of upper-class children.
— Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023 -
Although Ings has made a career playing upper-class British rogues, his own background is a little different.
— Imogen West-Knights, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024 -
Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters, some of whom threw stones and other objects at officers who had stationed themselves on a main avenue of an upper-class district.
— Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 July 2024 -
It was originally considered a form of protection for upper-class citizens in large cities like Paris, but earned a large following in the sporting world.
— Kade Krichko, Outside Online, 2 Aug. 2024 -
Paddy, ever the upper-class Englishman, dressed with nonchalant elegance in jeans, crisp shirts, and crewneck sweaters.
— Plum Sykes, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2024 -
But the market for upper-class people in the Bay Area willing to overpay for laundry rather than doing it themselves wound up being too small, and competition from mom-and-pop laundromats was too fierce.
— Hank Tucker, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024 -
While many upper-class households got raises to keep up with the pace of inflation, middle-class families didn’t see the same wage increases—contributing to the already shrinking middle class.
— Chloe Berger, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023 -
Michael works as a fixer at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, which means that his salary hinges on fulfilling the less glamorous — and occasionally less lawful — needs of the firm’s upper-class clientele.
— Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024 -
Moviegoing became a regular activity for her upper-class family through the unease of World War II.
— Mayukh Sen, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023 -
The bluesy romantic ballad depicts a committed, if unlikely, love story between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.
— Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024 -
Moreover, for a multitude of reasons, including biases in IQ tests, a disproportionate number of those diagnosed—and helped—have been white and middle- to upper-class.
— Sarah Carr, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Our Founding Fathers probably wore makeup at some point—in eighteenth-century America, upper-class men and women both did.
— Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2024 -
Coss had a vision that part of what was going to make their lives better were middle- and upper-class people meeting and working with them through professional services such as fitness, a turning point that the United States had not previously seen.
— Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024 -
Poaching in the region is driven by a high demand for wild meat, which is considered to be a delicacy or status symbol of middle and upper-class urban consumers in Cambodia, the report noted.
— Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 22 June 2023 -
Given the current distribution of power, working-class movements need upper-class patrons.
— Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023 -
It was politically empowered upper-class residents of high-rises near the reserve who relished the green view but panicked if a leopard so much as showed up on a security camera.
— Vidya Athreya, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023 -
In the documentary, Williams provides rare home video footage and candid interviews to detail the family’s unprecedented gate-crashing in the 1990s of a predominately white, upper-class sport.
— Manori Ravindran, Variety, 17 July 2023 -
No set curriculum existed, and the only subjects considered necessary for middle- and upper-class girls were needlework, reading, writing, etiquette, music and a bit of arithmetic.
— E.r. Zarevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024 -
These skills were useful to build the American economy with free labor that further enriched already wealthy aristocratic and upper-class Europeans.
— Julie Kratz, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 -
Freemasonry was established early in the Thirteen Colonies and soon became an integral part of American upper-class society.
— Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
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The upper class eats steak at the Four Seasons at Christmas.
— Alfred Lubrano, Philly.com, 15 Dec. 2017 -
The author, dubbed Lady Whistledown, spills all the tea to the shock of the upper class and the glee of the audience.
— Lauren Hill, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021 -
Three-to-four-year-olds are in the baby class, four-to-five-year-olds in the middle class, and five-to-six-year-olds in the upper class.
— Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 16 Jan. 2020 -
This Court that loves the upper classes has its roots in Richard Nixon’s election in 1968.
— Adam Cohen, Time, 3 Mar. 2020 -
Looks a lot like welfare for the middle and upper classes to me.
— Byline, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2018 -
The monarch threw grand daytime soirees to mingle with Britain's upper class.
— Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 May 2019 -
Maybe the answer is not that all upper class cabins should be child-free.
— Cnt Editors, CNT, 21 Sep. 2017 -
Guy Ritchie has another film in the works that doubles down on the British upper class.
— Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 May 2024 -
The city of Luxor sits to the east of the Nile, and Egyptians from the ruling and upper classes were buried to the west as a sign of reverence.
— National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2017 -
Some neighborhoods in Brooklyn are now home to the upper class.
— Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022 -
The posset was actually consumed by the wealthy and those in the upper class.
— Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2023 -
Add to that the fact that large-scale entrepreneurship tends to expand wealth among those who are already in the upper class.
— Malaika Jabali, Essence, 19 June 2022 -
Shows such as Dynasty were some of the first to pave the way for series that center on the drama and spectacle of the upper class.
— Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Aug. 2021 -
All these high places, the upper class or the bourgeoisie … all of this Western construct is falling apart.
— Catherine Annie Hollingsworth, miamiherald, 3 June 2018 -
Nail art has been around since ancient Egypt, when members of the upper class dyed their nails with henna.
— Arabelle Sicardi, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2023 -
Among women of the upper class with means, Lister was hardly alone in forging her own kind of life.
— Jeanna Kadlec, Longreads, 7 June 2019 -
This is the story of the Trenchard family, who are part of the nouveau riche in London’s upper class.
— ELLE, 30 Oct. 2021 -
Before that, novels were about the upper classes, or the bourgeoisie, but never the people who work or the poor.
— John Timpane, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018 -
In declaring war on the upper class that made him, Carlson joined a long, volatile lineage of combatants against the élite.
— Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024 -
They were embraced by the upper class and later, in the 19th century, were adopted by the French Navy in the form of the iconic Breton-striped top.
— Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2019 -
Those who well dressed and seemed like belonged to an upper class and dominant caste were not singled out.
— Priyali Sur, CNN, 15 Apr. 2020 -
Washlets once again made bidets something for the upper classes.
— Maria Teresa Hart, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2018 -
As a result, the upper class turned to shiny, reflective glass to decorate their homes.
— Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 5 July 2022 -
By then, the British upper classes had moved on to French luxuries like truffles and oysters.
— Matt Giles, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2017 -
There were four types—the paipo, used by children; the alaia, which commoners were allowed to use; the kiko‘o, for the upper class; and the olo, reserved for royalty.
— Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 12 Aug. 2019 -
At the front of the train are the upper class, people like Jennifer Connelly‘s Melanie Cavill, head of hospitality.
— Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 July 2019 -
Perhaps this is the impact for change — upper class white people dying.
— Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023 -
Amid a transitional era for college football, that’s a win for the little guys of this sport ruled by an upper class.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 31 Dec. 2021 -
Five people in the room, as the upper class, were each handed a single square of toilet paper, the equivalent of a million euros.
— Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024 -
The first Olympic sports for women are sports like tennis and golf which, at the time, were really associated with the white upper class.
— Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
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