upper class
Example Sentences
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“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
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
Seydoux, a Bonello veteran, is as wholly believable among the City of Lights’ upper class in 1910 as she is as a struggling actor a century later in the City of Angels.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2024
Rather than depicting an urban milieu populated by hustlers and pushers, the films that arrived during the newer decade captured an emerging, well-educated Black middle and upper class occupying high rises and boardrooms.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024
I intend to make myself necessary to the Derby family, while learning how the upper class lives.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
