the proletariat
Example Sentences
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Ylfa’s sauce enthusiasm addresses class disparity, the suppression of the proletariat, egomania and how food can unite people and tear them apart.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
It’s an inverse work song, one that juxtaposes hard toil with a flow that cannot be interrupted by the frustrations of the proletariat.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023
In Grenoble, he fell in with a group of English communists who engaged in impassioned discussions about the plight of the proletariat and the fight against Nazism.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2021
Boris Johnson’s unkempt hair might be a bid to identify with the proletariat, but just makes him look even more posh.
From The Guardian • May 28, 2020
After spending so much time living with the proletariat in the hospital where he worked, he had lost his reason.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
