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How to use the word upper-class in a Sentence?

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You’re like, ‘ No, he did n’t. I know my brother. He would n’t kill anybody. ’ It’s just so bizarre. The whole story I think is yet to come out. I think it’s just shocking and surprising. i thought she would be married with kids. She was smart, and her family was into music and opera and stuff, and sort of upper class.

Michael Rosenbaum

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I thought she would be married with kids. She was smart, and her family was into music and opera and stuff, and sort of upper class.

Michael Rosenbaum

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It’s not unusual for a middle class, upper class family with soccer kids to be spending $20, $30, $40,000 a year to keep them all playing at the high level, the median household income of most kids we work with is $26,000. I mean you can do the math. It just locks them out.

Phil Hill

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The Southern upper class never really cared what color the serfs were.

Michael Lind

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It will be extremely difficult to glue Syria back together as one country, the social fabric, the thick ties that bind it together have been dismantled, assad rule is really an area that corresponds more or less with a core identity area, yes there are many Sunnis and Christians living there but they see themselves as part of this core – the middle-class, upper-class Sunnis and Christians.

Fawaz Gerges

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Many large malls (and residential construction) in China.... are all hoping to target one demographic -- the upper class, what is needed to succeed is retail space that caters to (the much larger) bulk of middle-class Chinese.

Economist Brian Jackson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.

Paul Fussell

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.

John Peet

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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