steerage
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It’s like traveling in steerage on the Titanic.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2024
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
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
I am sure the people back in steerage by the malfunctioning toilet are deeply invested in this marital squabble.
From Slate • Nov. 23, 2019
On the eighth day at sea, Lefty Stephanides, grandly, on one knee, in full view of six hundred and sixty-three steerage passengers, proposed to Desdemona Aristos while she sat on a docking cleat.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing steerage
The Devil's Arithmetic
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A Night to Remember
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Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 1
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