steerage

Example Sentences

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Most comrades sprawl shoeless, many dozing open-mouthed in the permanent state of steerage that is Soviet air travel.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Without a speedy fix to regain steerage, the Polar Star would face a nightmare scenario: getting stuck in ice as the ocean froze around it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019

My father worked his way up from nothing, pulling himself up by bootstraps he knitted himself from rat fur in steerage.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2019

However our ancestors arrived here, by the Bering Strait or in ships, we're all in steerage now.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2018

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