upper class

Example Sentences

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“Poor people are as bad off as in the special period, but a segment of middle and upper class have access to dollars and are not in such bad shape, which causes real social tension.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

It is, as she says, both appropriation of the trappings of the upper class and a challenge to the order they’ve subjected the world to.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

In many ways I feel more at home with those folks than I do with the white upper class and other elites who I often travel among personally and professionally.

From Salon • May 23, 2024

General Cooper was raised in Mobile in a rarefied world: the Black upper class of the pre-civil rights era.

From New York Times • May 15, 2024

I intend to make myself necessary to the Derby family, while learning how the upper class lives.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper