upper class
Example Sentences
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Upper-class cadets plan and execute the training under the guidance of school officials, MacInnis said.
From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2020
Upper-class culture professes cosmopolitan openness, but “cultures are not, by their very nature, tolerant of much plurality,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2018
Upper-class people, wealthy, powerful people can have guns, and it’s part of the culture of hunting, and sporting, and things like that, but it’s not that everyone in Britain is buying guns.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2018
Upper-class Renaissance women were better educated than medieval women.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Upper-class pastoral can admit envy for the intimate pleasures of rustic life as an arrogant way of reminding its listeners of their difference—their own public power and civic position.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
