steerage

Example Sentences

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Most comrades sprawl shoeless, many dozing open-mouthed in the permanent state of steerage that is Soviet air travel.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Wilson’s tone softened when he mentioned how three of his four grandparents were immigrants, including a maternal grandmother who came to the U.S. on a boat as a 16-year-old in steerage class.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2019

My father worked his way up from nothing, pulling himself up by bootstraps he knitted himself from rat fur in steerage.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2019

However our ancestors arrived here, by the Bering Strait or in ships, we're all in steerage now.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2018

He proceeded forward, running his hand along the green tarps of the lifeboats, until he met the chain separating steerage from third class.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides