How to Use caste in a Sentence

caste

noun

• He was from a higher caste.
• Victorian dress was rife with symbolism and evolved around rigid codes of propriety and caste.
  — Emili Vesilind, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
• Doing so helps construct or reinforce ideas about racial caste in the minds of Americans—and, worst of all, in the minds of the children themselves.
  — Will Stancil, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2018
• Their menial occupations reflect their low status in the Hindu caste system.
  — Jason Overdorf, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
• The vast majority of marriages are still arranged by families, and some 94% of them among Hindus are within the same caste.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Since the system was based on patrilineal descent, a woman could secure her children’s future by marrying someone from a higher caste than her own.
  — Melissa Pandika, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
• For one, realistically, these high school programs wouldn't be available to everyone, thus creating a de facto caste system.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 9 Mar. 2018
• An angry indictment of British economic caste systems couched with hard rock, jazz and Music Hall references.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2017
• The dyadic version has no nefarious third party, just an us-and-them world where a corrupt capitalist political caste has betrayed the proletariat for its own benefit.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
• The glossy toothed leaves are dark green with a bluish caste, and the berries are bright red.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Oct. 2022
• But ants in the reproductive caste, whose sole job is to lay eggs, can live 10 to 16 months.
  — Yao-Hua Law, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• The big issue with caste is who is inside the caste system and who is outside.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
• Roughly 70 players show up, and there is a caste system of sorts.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 18 May 2018
• Delpy suggested that there was a sort of caste system within the world of refugees.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
• His face was bronzed by the desert sun, his features were hard and stern and to emphasize the caste a pair of navy 44s were slung from his belt.
  — Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• After nine days, more foragers had died than ants of any other caste; all of the queens were still alive.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2018
• Rather, Trump is the true elite, a caste of one, the übermensch who is smart, rich, and able to become president.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
• Speaking of the haves and have-nots, NBC has set up a caste system where not all sports are created equal.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
• Rahul Dambale, a Dalit activist from the nearby city of Pune, said justice for members of his caste is rare.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• Their goal proved to be the expansion of a racial caste system in peacetime thought to have been abolished through war.
  — Time, 15 Sep. 2022
• In recent years, South Asians have been pushing for caste protections on the U.S.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
• But the push for caste-equity has been sweeping schools and institutions all over the U.S. in the last few years.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2022
• Singh Bal How India’s far right is conquering castes—and the country.
  — Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2023
• And as Indians have settled in other parts of the world, the caste system has followed them.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The classroom caste system of fashion has always been around.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
• Police said the four men, all from an upper caste, have been arrested.
  — Fox News, 30 Sep. 2020
• Of its 21 members, only two were women and the rest were largely upper-caste men.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
• The caste system places people in rigid categories at birth.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 11 May 2023
• Her feeling, her idea—and it’s not born with her—is that race is secondary, that a caste system is primary.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
• In the context of her argument, the shrink joke, with its caste and class presuppositions, cuts a little close to the bone.
  — Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024