steerage

Example Sentences

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Yet he was adventurous: one summer, work as a cattle feeder on a cattle steamer to England; one fall, steerage passage to Panama, in search of work there.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021

So I worked with these amazing people under the steerage of Bruce.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2020

I am sure the people back in steerage by the malfunctioning toilet are deeply invested in this marital squabble.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2019

That’s another cruel irony: Never before has air travel seemed so democraticized, affordable to so many, yet so stratified, turning economy into steerage with pretzels.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2019

But even with all of this, as I stood on the lower deck outside our dark, cramped rooms in steerage, watching the oily water churn beneath the Agnes Pauline, I felt my spirits lift.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline