proletarian

Example Sentences

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Most of the things on the 112-item list cost less than $100 and fulfill a proletarian need instead of gesturing toward patrician signaling.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023

“In its often tearful compassion, its eloquent rage and its vengeful delight in proletarian snook-cocking, ‘Oh Happy Day’ deserves to be called Dickensian,” wrote literary scholar Peter Conrad, reviewing the book for Britain’s Observer newspaper.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2022

They identified with the agrarian and proletarian revolutions and mingled with European artists who fled to Mexico from both world wars.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2022

Lamar, 34, is an astonishing technician, a keen observer of Black life, a proletarian superhero, an artist who reckons with moral weight in his work.

From New York Times • May 16, 2022

I could drift along like this, in some dreary proletarian idyll, except for two things.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich