steerage

Example Sentences

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Yet he was adventurous: one summer, work as a cattle feeder on a cattle steamer to England; one fall, steerage passage to Panama, in search of work there.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021

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

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2019

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

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