How to Use steerage in a Sentence

steerage

noun

• In Episode 8, the Young Pope strolls through the steerage section of the papal plane and gazes over a dozing press corps.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
• The doors to the lot opened briefly, then shut again, trapping people in the process like Jack and Rose trying to get from steerage to first class in the Titanic.
  — The Cut, 10 Sep. 2017
• Without a speedy fix to regain steerage, the Polar Star would face a nightmare scenario: getting stuck in ice as the ocean froze around it.
  — Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2019
• In 1892, Hamburg was the largest seaport in the world and sent off dozens of ships filled stem to stern with travelers, goods, cargo, and steerage immigrants.
  — Howard Markel, Wired, 4 Mar. 2020
• With $3 in his pocket, Sidney traveled steerage on a mail-cargo ship.
  — Hillel Italie, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2022
• If the proletariat sitting in steerage pays for air services, so should a CEO flying across the country for lunch.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Annie Moore was the first of 12 million immigrants to land on Ellis Island, a 17-year-old from Ireland who had traveled in steerage.
  — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Even immigrants who arrive willingly get here in despair, if not in chains, then in steerage.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 May 2017
• His father was an orphan who came to America from Norway in 1911 with his seven brothers and sisters in the steerage of a ship, Yndestad said.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2021
• Most comrades sprawl shoeless, many dozing open-mouthed in the permanent state of steerage that is Soviet air travel.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• All third-class and steerage passengers, on the other hand, were put on a ferry to Ellis Island, where women and children were separated in one line and men in the other.
  — Paul Thompson, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2019
• Falling into the hands of the Libyan coast guard would mean a return to the prisons in Libya, and to the hunger and abuse that he’d likely already experienced there, but the caller was desperate enough to request steerage back to Libya.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
• Immigrants booked passage and came to these shores in steerage, enduring heat, stench and cramped conditions in hopes of better lives in America.
  — Leonard Pitts Jr, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2017
• Not only had there been no lifeboat drills, the crew provided steerage passengers almost no direction at all.
  — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• The Padres, stuck in steerage on their own wayward ship, are embarking on the most important offseason voyage in their history.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
• Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years of the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of to-day is real and genuine.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 2 July 2018
• To the editor: So our captain of state has telegraphed his intention to sail into a pack of icebergs at flank speed, ignoring the wishes of the majority in steerage who don’t want that.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2020
• Under his steerage, the newspaper became an important tool to lobby for the fugitives' return.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 4 Sep. 2020
• Alfred Stieglitz and Jacob Riis composed subjects with a spare, Modernist look in mind, but immigrants in steerage or children in factories were the stuff of real life.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024