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How to use underclass in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Underclass means the poorest class of people in a given society. Example: “The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.”

Examples of underclass by meaning

nounThe poorest class of people in a given society.

  • The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London)
  • Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant.2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine
  • While there are reasons to be optimistic about this trend, there is also something queasy about the emergence of a new underclass of urban servants.2019 August 12, Derek Thompson, “America's Hot New Job Is Being a Rich Person's Servant”, in The Atlantic

More sentences with underclass

  • So there are all these tweets that I saw joking about the permanent underclass.2025 October 27, “The new language of AI tech workers”, in NPR. From the entry permanent underclass
  • Also, I bleed for the welfare of our children among our growing population of feral underclass.2010, Mark A. Bruhwiller, The Last Dog Watch: A Memoir of a Wilful Young Lad, page 108. From the entry bleed for
  • To a number of underclass youths, love is only another hustle.1994 November 14, Cornelius Plantinga Jr., “Natural born sinners”, in Christianity Today, volume 38, number 13, page 24. From the entry get over on
  • Betty Crawford purchases underclass pictures for a friend from Bookstorekeeper, Mrs.1967, The Post, volume 39, Indianapolis, Ind.: George Washington High School, page 124. From the entry bookstorekeeper
  • Nobody wants to be part of the permanent underclass.2026 March, Sam Kriss, “Child's Play: Tech's New Generation and the End of Thinking”, in Harper's Magazine. From the entry permanent underclass
  • Alf was that rarest of rarae aves of the underclass.2017, Mercedes Lackey, chapter 2, in A Scandal in Battersea (Elemental Masters; 13; DAW Book Collectors; no. 1758), New York, N.Y.: DAW…. From the entry rara avis
  • Next up was the rise of the immigrant underclass.2010, Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz, Everything You Know Is Pong, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry gossima
  • The assimilationists would have you believe that there is no lesbian or gay underclass, white or of color.1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5. From the entry rehab
  • Meredith's high-toned verbosities often draw strength from a secret affiliation with the "undercraft" of the underclasses, his humor sociolectic as well as lexical.1990, Garrett Stewart, James O Freedman, Reading Voices: Literature and the Phonotext, page 217. From the entry undercraft
  • The glorification of recreational drug use, from which the wealthy and middle class have only recently begun to recoil, has contributed to the emergence of a permanent urban underclass.1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235. From the entry counterculture

Meaning of underclass

  1. noun The poorest class of people in a given society.

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Questions about underclass in a sentence

How do you use underclass in a sentence?
Underclass is used as a noun. For example: “The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.”
What is a short sentence with underclass?
“Next up was the rise of the immigrant underclass.”
What does underclass mean?
Underclass means the poorest class of people in a given society.

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