steerage
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We tried to fly standby on an earlier departure, but another couple jumped us on the list at the last moment, and a gate agent said it was probably because we had booked into steerage.
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2025
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
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
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
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
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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