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

With shaved head and visible tattoos, Iago is in a lower class than Lucas Iverson’s clean-cut Cassio, fueling Iago’s raging resentment of his rival, chosen by the general Othello to be his second in command.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

For people of a lower class, it feels like there is desire to believe a meritocracy does exist.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2023

Union leaders also will bargain over how and where to lower class sizes and weigh in on whether to shorten winter break from three weeks to two weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2023

Very few respondents called themselves lower class or upper class—7 percent and 1 percent.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times