lower class
Example Sentences
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"Do you want to make savings from falling pupil numbers, or do you want to maintain spending the way it is, and have lower class sizes?"
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
“Even if a government job is lower class, it is still prestigious in Bangladesh,” Amin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Lavin was the grandchild of Russian immigrants, and in later years she often played variations on the Jewish mother — lower class, middle class, upper class.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024
Instead, she and two of her sisters each moved to Mexico City to do one of the few jobs available to them as lower class women: domestic work.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024
What is key to America’s understanding of class is the persistent belief—despite all evidence to the contrary—that anyone, with the proper discipline and drive, can move from a lower class to a higher class.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
