upper crust

Example Sentences

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The pull of college football’s traditional upper crust is so powerful that earlier this season, Lane Kiffin left a playoff-bound team at Ole Miss to become the head coach at LSU.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

“It’s really when you get to that upper crust that you start seeing, like, different kinds of motives and motivations,” he said.

From Slate • May 11, 2024

The melts were buoyant and ascended back to the upper crust, trapping the heat-producing elements there in rocks like granite and allowing the lower crust to cool and harden.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2024

Any time the program has a chance to make a statement and join the conference’s upper crust, it shrinks from the moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2023

The cruise industry, once associated with the upper crust, is another.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times