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

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

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

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2019

Wilson’s tone softened when he mentioned how three of his four grandparents were immigrants, including a maternal grandmother who came to the U.S. on a boat as a 16-year-old in steerage class.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 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