privileged class
Example Sentences
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As journalist Macaulay Connor says in “The Philadelphia Story,” “The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
Oliver almost passes with the privileged class as Farleigh indicates.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023
He is among the few of his privileged class brave enough to call it out.
From Washington Times ● May 8, 2023
The Houstons were part of a small, privileged class of Black people that flourished during Reconstruction.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
Ulamá—the doctors of Divinity and Law—continued to increase, so that ere long they formed a privileged class, occupying in Islam a position not unlike that of the priesthood in mediæval Christendom.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
