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
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
On the eighth day at sea, Lefty Stephanides, grandly, on one knee, in full view of six hundred and sixty-three steerage passengers, proposed to Desdemona Aristos while she sat on a docking cleat.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing steerage
The Devil's Arithmetic
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A Night to Remember
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Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 1
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