upper class

Example Sentences

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"It can feel like you have to be middle to upper class to understand it - but Ballet Nights has made it extremely accessible for everyone."

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

“Poor people are as bad off as in the special period, but a segment of middle and upper class have access to dollars and are not in such bad shape, which causes real social tension.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

It is, as she says, both appropriation of the trappings of the upper class and a challenge to the order they’ve subjected the world to.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

In many ways I feel more at home with those folks than I do with the white upper class and other elites who I often travel among personally and professionally.

From Salon • May 23, 2024

Slavery had been outlawed in Britain in 1807, but it still caused contention among some of the British upper class.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman