steerage

Example Sentences

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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

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