How to Use upper-class in a Sentence

upper-class

1 of 2 adjective

• The upper-class curtain hangs in front of the seat and brushes against the passenger's crotch on takeoff.
  — Gary Stoller, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Created mainly by middle- and upper-class people for like-minded readers, this long line of novels, films and plays can end up spreading harmful stereotypes about poor people.
  — Lennard J. Davis, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 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
• Salons were musical and intellectual and would have had performers and dancers and singers and actors, and that’s very different from (Alfredo’s) tight middle- and upper-class world.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2024
• Mediumship, the mechanism of spirit communication, happened inside of middle- and upper-class homes, a collision of the public and private spheres.
  — Marissa C. Rhodes / Made By History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The problem is compounded by Giles, who, despite his appealing name, is a lifeless caricature of upper-class philistinism.
  — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 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

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upper class

2 of 2 noun

• 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
• Many of them hail from the middle and upper class, with nice homes and college educations.
  — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 31 Dec. 2021
• My guess is cigars’ turn-of-the-century association with the upper class meant cigars were a useful tool of satire and then later, when the comedians found success, a means of Jewish assimilation.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024