hoi polloi

Example Sentences

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But the difference between championship-caliber teams such as Milwaukee and the league’s hoi polloi is knowing how to turn an inch into a mile.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2023

The residents seemed “perfectly happy to have their rich neighbors looking at them, but they’re not happy to have hoi polloi at the Tate looking at them,” he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

Launched in 2006, Twitter created a space where the well-known could circumvent traditional media and communicate directly with fans to push messages or products while, in turn, increasing the site’s popularity among the hoi polloi.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Hardly anyone got a pay raise in 2020 as the pandemic savaged the economy—except those in the Executive Class—while in 2021 modest pay raises for the hoi polloi were widespread.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2022

Presumably they were used to dazzle hoi polloi.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann