How to Use second-class in a Sentence

second-class

1 of 2 adjective

• In this sect, women are viewed as second-class and subservient to men.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 22 June 2023
• To be Arab or Black, even with a French passport, was often to be made to feel second-class.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• Though the Mountain West is a second-class conference, the Aztecs would in no way be second-class citizens.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• Meanwhile, the revenue model assigns second-class cash to the Big 12 and ACC, which are set to receive 32 percent of the total revenue each year.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
• The pocket watch belonged to second-class passenger Sinai Kantor, a 34-year-old who died when the ship sank, and was recovered with his body.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Mother and daughter left home still second-class citizens of a country that had been ruled by white people for three centuries.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
• Catholic women's groups that have long accused the Vatican of treating women as second-class citizens praised the change.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
• The Hideaway is a haven for Bearers — magic users reviled as second-class citizens and trapped in a system of chattel slavery — and the tavern owner asks Clive to help hand out food.
  — Josh Broadwell, Variety, 21 June 2023
• But going mostly digital doesn’t make for a second-class experience of these movies.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 May 2024
• But in practice, these migrants often have been treated by their homeland as second-class citizens, stripped of their right to take part in national elections.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Inside the sleeper trains Each of the electric multiple unit (EMU) trains used to service the routes has 16 carriages, including 13 sleeper cars, two second-class seating cars and one dining car.
  — Maggie Wong, CNN, 16 June 2024
• The lawyers are the same lawyers that have brought a number of these other suits really pushing this idea that for, in their view, religion has been treated as a second-class right, despite it being enshrined in the First Amendment.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• From the comfort of a second-class sleeper berth, passengers get an unfiltered view of everyday life as the train inches along the backs of huts where buffalo roam, kids play cricket, and the smell of fried cooking wafts through the open doors.
  — Monisha Rajesh, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2023
• But there’s also now an onus on the Albanese government, says Strangio, to recognize the public fracturing over the vote and to ensure that no one feels like second-class citizens in the country.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• But for some Black Ellisville residents, the fountains still stir up painful memories of second-class citizenship.
  — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2024
• First, non-Jewish residents have long been treated as second-class citizens.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Quite simply: Indian children who wind up in foster care are second-class citizens.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 19 June 2023
• Where has the outrage been all these years over abusive coaches and federations treating their women’s players as, at best, second-class citizens?
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps the trauma embedded within him the need to purge, to destroy and discard the artwork—and by extension pieces of himself that continued to be treated as a second-class citizen in the United States.
  — Amanda Chemeche, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2023
• Giani: Since then, dance music has often been considered a second-class production.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 24 July 2024
• Most are wary of joining an opposition protest movement that mainly seeks to preserve Israel’s status quo, in which Arabs already felt like second-class citizens.
  — Patrick Kingsley Moises Saman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• Three years ago, women’s basketball players were treated as second-class players by the NCAA with vastly inferior weight rooms—a scandal that prompted some reflection in the sport.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
• Their world is contrasted with the constricted second-class milieu of the nonwhite characters, most notably the spectacular mother-daughter duo of Nell and Keesha.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
• Think About Aesthetics Douglas is a big proponent of making a vegetable garden stylized as opposed to treating it like a second-class citizen.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• Ruscha’s stains were left by automobiles parked out in the lot — ordinary, figurative images recorded by a cameraman the artist hired at a time when photography was a second-class medium for art.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
• Critics fear the movement could divert patients into second-class convalescence and obscure the need for permanent housing.
  — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• There are three classes of medical certificates issued by the FAA: first-class airline transfer pilot, second-class commercial pilot, and third-class private pilot.
  — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2024
• Executives of Ford and other companies insist their customers will not be second-class citizens at Tesla stations.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2023
• Top Aussie commanders like General Thomas Blamey, who had to deal with the general’s abrasive command style personally, felt they were treated as second-class allies and ignored in decision-making.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• Baseball is our most historical sport, its barometer of statistics stitching time, and finally the great players that the game once blacklisted as second-class human beings are welcomed as part of that history.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024

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second class

2 of 2 noun

• The airline offers special services for travelers in first and second class.
• She got an upper second class in English at Oxford.
• They were then allowed to go to their second class of the day.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 29 Oct. 2018
• If the number grows to 200, a second class would be added.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
• Harris, then six and in the first grade, was in the second class of children to be bused up the mountain.
  — Noemie Emery, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• Taylor was the prize of Luke Fickell’s second class as the head coach of Cincinnati.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• The second class is composed of HLAs that present antigens found outside of the cell to T-helper cells.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The second class included the first efforts at artistry.
  — Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• Roberts, who was in the second class that graduated in 1954, joined the department the same year.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• Hitchcock was a member of the second class of inductees for the College Football Hall of Fame.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 10 Mar. 2023
• If there are more than 22, the district can open a second class, officials said.
  — Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• But in a second class where the teacher gave the course, a shocked student refused to leave the room and told her father about what happened.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
• This is the second class action filed against the automakers in the Eastern District.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2023
• The Pieper twins, both radiomen second class, are the 45th pair of brothers at the cemetery, three of them memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the cemetery.
  — Mark D. Carlson and Virginia Mayo, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
• Councilman Scott Willis was the lone vote in favor of moving Westfield to a second class city.
  — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
• Salay said this is the second class Kellwell has done, the first being in Marion County.
  — Mary Alford, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
• The first class is loyal, the second class is disloyal, and the lower class waverings.
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Oct. 2017
• The second class of drugs targets two receptors, Sigma1 and Sigma2, which are found on the surface of cells, but also inside them.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2020
• With growth harder to come by, Apple can’t afford to treat them as second class anymore.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• The high school bell schedule for the first and second class periods has been aligned with the bell schedules for other high schools throughout the county.
  — David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2021
• There's a second class of true believer, and that's really the crypto.
  — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2022
• Otherwise, food will be a second class citizen at the FDA.
  — Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2022
• There's a number of people on the court who feel that religion has becomes almost like a second class right.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• This second class of startups were selected from more than 100 applicants from around the world.
  — William Thornton [e-mail], AL.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Vixama just finished the second class, and shadowed a manager at CVS as part of that training.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
• They're still treated like second class citizens, and aren't permitted to live outside the Citadel for very long.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2017
• In fact, Bess was one of only three women traveling in first class to die, while her daughter was the only child in first or second class killed in the sinking.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2018
• For the second class, 36 business owners applied for 11 available slots.
  — Don Lee Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2019
• Second hand is not a synonym for second class, as anyone who has discovered vintage will understand.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024