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

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

That’s another cruel irony: Never before has air travel seemed so democraticized, affordable to so many, yet so stratified, turning economy into steerage with pretzels.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2019

He proceeded forward, running his hand along the green tarps of the lifeboats, until he met the chain separating steerage from third class.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides