class structure

Example Sentences

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Critiques of British class structure and bad actors within the police department are raised high enough to be impossible to miss.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025

“Making sense of the beer business can be like understanding American class structure: There are fewer people at the top than at the bottom,” he writes.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023

At the top of the Yuan class structure were Mongols, followed by non-Chinese people, who were Europeans or previous steppe inhabitants like the Jurchen, Tangut, and Khitan.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Today, whether or not they realize it, the wealthy tell the stories of their lives — and our class structure — within the framework that Alger articulated.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

On the whole, society took on a class structure that was based upon power.

From Down with the Cities by Nakashima, Tadashi