How to Use middle-class in a Sentence

middle-class

1 of 2 adjective

• Berlusconi was born in Milan in 1936, the son of a middle-class banker.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 12 June 2023
• It was named one of the best places for middle-class homebuyers by Realtor.com.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• The savings for the middle-class could be more meaningful.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
• But the growing traction of women in the workforce hadn’t quite reached the ranks of middle-class mothers yet.
  — Linne Halpern, ELLE, 21 June 2023
• But with Hollywood in flux, will writers be able to hold on to a middle-class life long term?
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
• Yet a middle-class version of Old Pat could chat up a group of old folks and become instant friends.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• Stop going to the middle-class and hard-working people of NYC to carry the burden.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
• The plans were once further out of reach for middle-class Americans.
  — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Janet Malcolm was born to a middle-class family in Prague in 1934.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
• One goal of the Gray New Deal is to make sure that a middle-class worker can remain a middle-class retiree.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2024
• So, how could such a city remain a place that middle-class people could even afford?
  — CBS News, 19 May 2024
• Most of my friends come from stable middle-class families that aren’t as needy as mine.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• Decades ago, young adults didn't need much more than a high school degree to secure a job with solid, middle-class wages.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 May 2023
• The rising cost of basic goods has deepened the hardships faced by middle-class and poor Egyptians.
  — Samy Magdy, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2024
• Republicans and Democrats have long fought over the Black vote, the evangelical vote, and the middle-class vote.
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
• Just over a third of Americans met all six markers of a middle-class lifestyle.
  — Scott Clement, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• But the recent Covid-era boom has driven up rents and squeezed middle-class residents.
  — Low De Wei, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
• There is something about the throne-ness of being born in North America as a middle-class person.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
• Fears of a large-scale flight of middle-class families fleeing to charters or private schools have not come to pass.
  — Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• The White House’s proposals would provide middle-class first-time buyers with $5,000 per year for two years.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Moving to Bali gave the 38-year-old greater freedom and a middle-class lifestyle with what might be barely enough money to live on back home.
  — Yucheng Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• Ross Yednock swam in a sea of American middle-class well-being all his life.
  — Clara Germani, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
• Yet the expense of Doug’s residential Alzheimer’s care poses a grave threat to their middle-class nest egg.
  — Christopher Rowland, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2023
• That has kept the housing market in neutral, keeping the key to middle-class wealth growth out of reach for so many would-be homebuyers.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
• Their goal is to convince middle-class Americans that lunar living is not just for the elite.
  — Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• Born in Madrid to a middle-class family, Álvarez released his first songs while still a student at a Catholic high school.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• Most who have come to the United States in the past year were middle-class adults who have headed to New York after being released from custody.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• The sit-in is led by Sloane, a middle-class Black woman whose character is a blend of those included in Garmus’ book.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2023
• So yes, the tax cuts that Hovde has publicly supported and endorsed would benefit the rich more than middle-class workers.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
• Not bad for a middle-class kid from southwestern London who grew up playing cello in school and singing in a choir but who had no real plans to turn professional.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024

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middle class

2 of 2 noun

• The middle class built the country, and unions built the middle class.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2024
• Thelma Golden grew up in the heart of the Black middle class.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Moskowitz said the new IRS agents will target the middle class.
  — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
• The tax increases are aimed at businesses and the wealthy and the tax cuts are aimed at the middle class.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
• Tell me some more about how the GOP really looks out for the middle class of this state.
  — Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• Fifty-nine per cent identified as middle class, and most lived in the South.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• And then making sure tax cuts go to the middle class, $6,000 child tax credit.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
• The definition of the middle class has changed the least in Alaska.
  — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2024
• So, yes, I was privileged to be solidly in the middle class and live on a nice street.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Sep. 2022
• The middle class is stagnating while the rich get even richer.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
• Unions say the training provides a path to the middle class on par with a four-year college degree.
  — Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 13 Nov. 2022
• Support of over 70% came from the solidly middle class districts of the Sunset and Lake Merced.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• But for the first time since the middle class began to emerge, its promise is uncertain.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
• To be a browser was arguably the defining pastime of the emergent middle class.
  — Suzannah Showler, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• So per usual, the middle class here is going to get hammered.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Below-the-line jobs have long been seen as a path to a middle class life, despite the long hours and grueling work.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• Biden has made a greater effort than any president in decades to shift wealth from the top to the middle class and working poor.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
• Homeownership has long been the key path to wealth-building for the U.S. middle class.
  — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 8 July 2022
• But how different is the modern-day middle class from a decade ago?
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 4 June 2024
• How one woman went from middle class to homeless in her 50s.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• Where is the new epicenter of the area’s substantial Black middle class?
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
• And middle class people are having a hard time finding a home or looking to find a home.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
• Harris will likely try to paint Trump as someone who cuts taxes for the wealthy, but doesn’t do much for the middle class.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
• Lockdowns robbed four trillion [dollars] from the middle class and the poor in this country and transferred it to the super rich.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
• His sales pitch to the public is that his foreign policy is also about jobs for the U.S. middle class.
  — Jamie Stengle, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
• In fact, the benefits of Mr. Biden’s proposals will largely go to the middle class.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• The houses of that era, even those of the middle class, were often decorated from top to bottom.
  — Lia Picard, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Taking from Melissa, who has had her own affairs, feels like Robin Hood-ing to Frances: stealing from the hot, rich, and blonde to feed the middle class and meek.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 15 May 2022
• The rise of a young middle class in emerging markets in places like Asia and the Middle East means this demographic is playing a greater role in global consumption patterns.
  — Rusty Wiley, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• But this poll asked more specific questions about whether voters trusted Trump or Harris to do a better job handling the cost of housing, jobs and unemployment, taxes on the middle class, the cost of groceries and gas, and tariffs.
  — Steve Peoples, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024