How to Use plebe in a Sentence

plebe

noun

• Non-carriers will have to get in line with the rest of the plebes.
  — Kate Krader, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
• For us mere mortals, plebes, and laypeople, the Met Gala all but ends when the red carpet is over.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 8 May 2018
• Students in their first year at the academy are known as plebes.
  — USA TODAY, 28 June 2019
• Late in the morning, the group of plebes waded into the Severn River.
  — Sarah Larimer, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
• For a long time, sitting still and not moving was a sign of privilege, while breaking a sweat was for the plebes.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartzy, 24 July 2019
• On the first day of football practice at Navy, a record 300 plebes show up for drills at Farragut Field in Annapolis.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• The plebes must replace it with an upperclassman’s hat.
  — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
• In 1907, the plebes swooped around the monument at the start of summer to celebrate surviving their freshmen year.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
• The annual Herndon Climb separates plebes, or first-year students, from the rest.
  — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
• On tournament trips, as kids raised hell in the corridors of the hotel, the hockey dads and moms gathered around him at the bar and pumped him for insights and anecdotes, a prince among the plebes.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• So much more convenient than having to actually go to a gas station, like a plebe.
  — Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 17 Jan. 2019
• Whether or not the site was ever meant for public consumption is unclear, so there's always the possibility that the password could change to keep us plebes out of the loop.
  — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 19 Oct. 2016
• That’s going to make people like me, like the regular plebes who follow you, interested.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 18 July 2018
• Stella in the original, Soraya here—who's married a coarse, beer-guzzling American plebe in a T-shirt because the guy makes her colored lights go 'round.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 21 Mar. 2018
• Between each event, the plebes are constantly running, doing pushups and hydrating.
  — Jeff York, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
• Insurance companies—a sorry proxy for third-party oversight—aren’t convinced Tesla drivers are any safer than the rest of us plebes.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 4 Oct. 2017
• There was a reason so many American newspapers were called Tribunes, after the Romans who represented the plebes.
  — Jonathan Alter, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• That stuff is soulless, manipulated, overblown plebe juice.
  — Brian Palmer, Slate Magazine, 12 June 2017
• In a new video for Vogue, Rihanna guides us plebes through a ten-minute tutorial of her slightly experimental makeup.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 3 May 2018
• One friend from his Naval Academy days recalls how John, while a lowly plebe, reacted to seeing an upperclassman verbally abuse a steward.
  — Caroline Houck, Vox, 1 Sep. 2018
• Indeed, there has been a George Kent sworn to defend the Constitution continuously for nearly 60 years, ever since my father reported to Annapolis for his plebe summer.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 13 Nov. 2019

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