steerage
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“I will say the dog flew first class and I was back in steerage, but that’s fine. I’m not bitter about that at all.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
One of these days, you’ll meet a friend at the airport and they’ll see you enjoying your glass of champagne in first class when they’re bustling their way into steerage.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
We watched the ceremony and then were quietly escorted back through the steerage section before being deposited unceremoniously outside the briefing room.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2023
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
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
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