steerage
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We tried to fly standby on an earlier departure, but another couple jumped us on the list at the last moment, and a gate agent said it was probably because we had booked into steerage.
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2025
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
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
They packed their clothes and a few boatbuilding tools, used their winnings from their races to book passage in steerage to Halifax, aboard the steamship Tunisian, and set sail from Liverpool.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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