How to Use lower class in a Sentence

lower class

noun
  • The funds will also be used to lower class sizes for the next school year.
    John Benson, cleveland, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Layton is a resident of the tail, which is the lowest class all the way at the back of the train.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 May 2020
  • Working the land was seen as the lowest class of labor.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The cleaning staff, all of them Asian women, are the lower class.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Among those assigned to the lower class were teens who had known hunger in their own lives.
    Karen De Sa, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2018
  • As is usually the case in low Class A, Lalli had to deal with his share of turnover.
    Paul Johnson, Elgin Courier-News, 24 June 2018
  • The wealthy always come out just fine, and the lower class gets shafted (which includes death).
    Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Programs that were playing up that did not earn a point were returned to the lower class.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2022
  • There will be no uprisings from the lower class on her watch — well, at least not right away.
    Julia Alexander, The Verge, 21 July 2019
  • The 16th place team plays a relegation playoff against the third place team from the lower class.
    Tim Bannon, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • The show harkens back to the ‘70s and ‘80s, thanks to its cyberpunk aesthetic and themes that touch on a lot of the struggles of lower classes.
    Michael Moore, The Verge, 13 July 2018
  • Smart siblings in the lower class are much more likely to go up the class ladder than stupid siblings.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2013
  • Adell will start the season in low Class A, still years away from contributing at the major league level.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Would also work with the Moorish man story, and with the lower class characters getting the short end of the stick.
    Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
  • In 19th-century France, leftovers were a way of life for the lower classes.
    Samantha Presnal, Quartzy, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Perdomo is playing in low Class A, trying to get his career off the ground.
    Paul Johnson, Aurora Beacon-News, 15 June 2019
  • The man who had her heart, a sailor named Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), was of a lower class.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2022
  • This is a film that moves a lot in dualities, between light and shadow, the upper class and the lower class, and which somehow presents the two sides of the same coin.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The first class is loyal, the second class is disloyal, and the lower class waverings.
    Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Increase in home values, often at the expense of the lower classes.
    Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • There were also remnants of a silk cap on her head, which would not have been affordable for a member of a lower class.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Lopez Obrador says the country will grow with investments in its lower classes.
    Kate Linthicum, latimes.com, 9 May 2018
  • They were used as a way to disguise people from lower classes, so everyone could join in on the parties and events.
    Shauna Beni, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2020
  • That’s a redistribution of not just of wealth but of life—of literal life force from the lower classes to the upper class.
    Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2019
  • An upper class woman's place in India is a better place, and has more access to a public space, than a lower class man.
    Manveena Suri, CNN, 8 May 2018
  • Meanwhile, the lower classes in District 1 start the playoffs in baseball and softball.
    Mike Owens, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
  • The failure, by the Democrats, to preserve the living standards of the lower class drove those people, out of desperation, into the arms of Donald Trump.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 24 June 2019
  • Drops down into a lower class after a nice run versus much better in last outing.
    NOLA.com, 17 Jan. 2021
  • The stimulus checks were designed with the middle class in mind – not the lower class or people of color, Saadian said.
    Michael Braga, USA TODAY, 31 May 2020
  • The lower classes, once tethered to the regime by the expansive welfare state, have also grown disloyal.
    Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 16 June 2019

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