social class

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Nevertheless, this man, grown out of Flea Bottom’s gutters, appropriates the tradition by holding his vows as a representation of lived reality, rather than as a mere ritual or badge of social class.

From Salon

At the time, Iranians across social classes and political divides, inside and outside the country, united under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a departure from an older generation of private clubs, Core prized accomplishment, ambition and talent over inherited social class.

From The Wall Street Journal

Not that Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s doomed-by-their-own-hands love affair ever needed the exposure; Brontë’s themes of obsession, revenge, social class and the supernatural are still analyzed in high school English classes.

From Los Angeles Times

Her aim was to "redress the social injustice linked to social class at birth", she said in her Nobel lecture in 2022.

From BBC