steerage

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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