steerage

Example Sentences

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It’s like traveling in steerage on the Titanic.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2024

Her job doesn’t allow for remote work, and she said she didn’t want to subject her large dog to the steerage of an airplane.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022

I am sure the people back in steerage by the malfunctioning toilet are deeply invested in this marital squabble.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2019

Wilson’s tone softened when he mentioned how three of his four grandparents were immigrants, including a maternal grandmother who came to the U.S. on a boat as a 16-year-old in steerage class.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2019

Here lived the big-time politicians, the monied brewery families, the well-to-do immigrants who had been able to come over first-class instead of steerage.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith