How to Use middle-class in a Sentence

middle-class

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  • Berlusconi was born in Milan in 1936, the son of a middle-class banker.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 12 June 2023
  • But the growing traction of women in the workforce hadn’t quite reached the ranks of middle-class mothers yet.
    — Linne Halpern, ELLE, 21 June 2023
  • But with Hollywood in flux, will writers be able to hold on to a middle-class life long term?
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Yet a middle-class version of Old Pat could chat up a group of old folks and become instant friends.
    — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The plans were once further out of reach for middle-class Americans.
    — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • One goal of the Gray New Deal is to make sure that a middle-class worker can remain a middle-class retiree.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Most of my friends come from stable middle-class families that aren’t as needy as mine.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The rising cost of basic goods has deepened the hardships faced by middle-class and poor Egyptians.
    — Samy Magdy, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Just over a third of Americans met all six markers of a middle-class lifestyle.
    — Scott Clement, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There is something about the throne-ness of being born in North America as a middle-class person.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Fears of a large-scale flight of middle-class families fleeing to charters or private schools have not come to pass.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The White House’s proposals would provide middle-class first-time buyers with $5,000 per year for two years.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Moving to Bali gave the 38-year-old greater freedom and a middle-class lifestyle with what might be barely enough money to live on back home.
    — Yucheng Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • Ross Yednock swam in a sea of American middle-class well-being all his life.
    — Clara Germani, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
  • That has kept the housing market in neutral, keeping the key to middle-class wealth growth out of reach for so many would-be homebuyers.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Most who have come to the United States in the past year were middle-class adults who have headed to New York after being released from custody.
    — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The sit-in is led by Sloane, a middle-class Black woman whose character is a blend of those included in Garmus’ book.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2023
  • By four years after graduating, most grads are on their way to earning middle-class salaries, the HEA Group found.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 May 2023
  • His political ethos is rooted more in middle-class Scranton, Pa., than in the wealth that surrounds his son’s home in the hills of Malibu.
    — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Coming from a middle-class family in Hauts-de-France in the country’s Northeast, Claudel began working with clay at the age of 12.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
  • This would be a one-year tax credit to middle-class families who sell a home priced below the area’s median home price to someone who will live in the home.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • For Blum, this has meant a self-conscious climb into American middle-class hide-a-bed comfort.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And some of the housing, like the Laureate, serves middle-class tenants, not someone earning, say, the minimum wage.
    — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Pollack was born in 1945 to a middle-class Jewish family in Brooklyn.
    — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • His parents were solidly middle-class, there was money.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • While that’s seen sales boom, it’s also given rise to challengers looking to make their own mark among the country’s middle-class families.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Miles Morales, the Afro-Latino teen-ager who gets bitten by a radioactive spider in the first film, comes from a stable middle-class family.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
  • Additionally, the remnants of bourgeois — or middle-class — abodes dating to the 18th or 19th centuries were unearthed at the site.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Armstrong’s fourth wife bought the house in 1943 as a refuge from their itinerant life, a foothold in middle-class ordinariness — and then turned the whole second floor over to her mother.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Sep. 2023
  • In many ways, the Nasrallah family were typical of middle-class Gaza life.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
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middle class

2 of 2 noun
  • The middle class built the country, and unions built the middle class.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Thelma Golden grew up in the heart of the Black middle class.
    — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The tax increases are aimed at businesses and the wealthy and the tax cuts are aimed at the middle class.
    — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Fifty-nine per cent identified as middle class, and most lived in the South.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The middle class is stagnating while the rich get even richer.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Unions say the training provides a path to the middle class on par with a four-year college degree.
    — Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 13 Nov. 2022
  • But for the first time since the middle class began to emerge, its promise is uncertain.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
  • To be a browser was arguably the defining pastime of the emergent middle class.
    — Suzannah Showler, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • So per usual, the middle class here is going to get hammered.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Biden has made a greater effort than any president in decades to shift wealth from the top to the middle class and working poor.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
  • How one woman went from middle class to homeless in her 50s.
    — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Lockdowns robbed four trillion [dollars] from the middle class and the poor in this country and transferred it to the super rich.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
  • His sales pitch to the public is that his foreign policy is also about jobs for the U.S. middle class.
    — Jamie Stengle, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The houses of that era, even those of the middle class, were often decorated from top to bottom.
    — Lia Picard, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a growing Black middle class, with some of these households earning six figures and above.
    — Naba, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Is skiing gradually becoming a sport for the wealthy and less for the middle class?
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
  • For many low-income students, the programs have created a pathway to the middle class.
    — Mandy McLaren, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Across Utah, rents have soared and home ownership has become a mere fantasy for the middle class.
    — Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Other issues to consider include the NHL’s lack of a middle class.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • There was a thriving Black middle class during the Regency era.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The governor prefers to offer tax relief to the middle class by driving down state income tax rates.
    — Keith Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The candidates and people watching the race said the economic straits of the middle class will be a potent issue among voters across the state.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, a college degree still looks like a ticket to the middle class, broadly speaking.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 9 July 2023
  • In a city like this one, where one in three children grow up in poverty, law enforcement can be a ticket into the middle class.
    — Emily Davies, Tim Craig, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • While the rate of U.S. inflation may have moderated, paychecks of the middle class have been gobbled up by the surge in housing and food costs.
    — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The New Yorker was a common token among the aspirant middle class in the neighborhood.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Most of the men in the Casa Susanna community were white people from the middle class that had good jobs and a bit of money, and were married, some with kids.
    — Nicolas Rapold, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • In the last 40 years, China has brought more people into the middle class than in the history of civilization.
    — TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
  • From their new apartment, Clara sees a city in transition: the remnants of an old society washed away by the tastes of an emerging middle class.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022
  • High-poverty schools did worse than those filled with middle class and affluent kids, as many worried.
    — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022

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