middle class

Example Sentences

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Tales of withering love leading to betrayal among the upper middle classes are almost as common as murder mysteries.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tom Stacey, senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, who works in supply chain and manufacturing research, said the company was operating within an "upper middle class squeeze".

From BBC

Labour drew working-class voters, and the Tories scooped up the aspirational middle class and the wealthy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Whether Leah truly believed or whether she kept up a false story to propel herself into the comfortable middle class cannot be known.

From Literature

The Luddite movement, which predated the Swing Riots, was led by textile workers convinced that power-operated looms would permanently impoverish the middle class.

From Barron's