second-class
Example Sentences
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We're almost 10 years into the use of the video assistant referee, and still the match-going fan is treated like a second-class citizen.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Anthropologist Anastasia Piliavsky, part of a group called Ukrainian Cosmopolis which aims to defend freedom of thought and speech, believes Russian-speakers are being made to feel like second-class citizens who are deprived of their heritage.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“We will not accept fear being used to silence voters, and we will not accept new Americans being treated as less American because they were born somewhere else. No second-class citizens, no second-class voters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Under segregation, black Americans generally shared a common experience of being second-class citizens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Public transportation was just one arena in which North Carolina blacks contested second-class status.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
