steerage

Example Sentences

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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

So I worked with these amazing people under the steerage of Bruce.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2020

And where Bong’s work was about a fight to the front with steerage overtaking first class, a TV show needed more to sustain itself over several episodes.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2020

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

But even with all of this, as I stood on the lower deck outside our dark, cramped rooms in steerage, watching the oily water churn beneath the Agnes Pauline, I felt my spirits lift.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline