steerage

Example Sentences

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Her job doesn’t allow for remote work, and she said she didn’t want to subject her large dog to the steerage of an airplane.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022

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

Without a speedy fix to regain steerage, the Polar Star would face a nightmare scenario: getting stuck in ice as the ocean froze around it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 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