How to Use middle-class in a Sentence

middle-class

1 of 2 adjective
  • Walter sees middle-class tax cuts as a way to ease the cost of living.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Gone are the days when Democrats stood up for the working poor and middle-class.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 June 2026
  • How did a middle-class divorcée do it?
    — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 8 June 2026
  • Goetz was born in Queens to middle-class parents and raised on a farm upstate.
    — Kevin Lozano, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • So, how could such a city remain a place that middle-class people could even afford?
    — CBS News, 19 May 2024
  • There are no shortage of offbeat homes in these largely middle-class streets.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Most of my friends come from stable middle-class families that aren’t as needy as mine.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • There, Bishnoi seemed destined for a middle-class life.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Young middle-class Americans should be so lucky.
    — M. Nolan Gray, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But in June, middle-class confidence gave out.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Ford said middle-class consumers are her restaurants’ bread and butter.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Just a few decades ago, the world was rich with coupes for the wealthy, middle-class, and trying-to-survive alike.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The taxes are not just a way to pay for more middle-class welfare benefits.
    — Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
  • People could go off to work in factories and earn a decent middle-class wage.
    — David Brooks, Mercury News, 31 May 2025
  • Phillips grew up in the East Bay in a middle-class family.
    — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
  • And that someone else will be middle-class taxpayers.
    — Jim Brulte, Oc Register, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Taking steps to harm that is going to hurt working class and middle-class people.
    — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Being hit the hardest with rising pump costs are poor and middle-class households.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • The plans were once further out of reach for middle-class Americans.
    — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • There are tax cuts on tips and overtime, and some broader middle-class tax reductions in the bill.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Yet for too many people who weren’t middle-class bohemians, the city had become hell.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
  • So do a lot of people who make a lot of money, and even just upper- to middle-class working people.
    — Alex Distefano, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • And the mother, of course, was a housewife, and also with a middle-class background.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Many are middle-class families already stretched thin.
    — Steven Fulop, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Decades ago, young adults didn't need much more than a high school degree to secure a job with solid, middle-class wages.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 May 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
  • Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • She was born to an upper-middle-class Parisian family.
    — Richard Natale, Variety, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Most heavy industry has left the country, along with many well-paying, middle-class, union jobs.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
  • These salaries filter out and exclude working- and middle-class candidates for jobs.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Apr. 2026

middle class

2 of 2 noun
  • But the middle class has grown.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Much of the burden will fall on the middle class.
    — Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
  • All of this lands on a middle class already stretched thin.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The middle class is being squeezed, in more ways than one.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The rich will be fine, but the middle class is paying the bill.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 May 2022
  • The group of players that will be squeezed most is the middle class.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • And the middle class built this country.
    — Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That’s workin’ folks, middle class, but there was enough to put food on the table.
    — Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Members of the poor and the middle class are dying.
    — Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • So some tax relief would have been a welcome move for the middle class.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Make peace with programs that support the poor and middle class.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
  • That means taxing the rich to ease burdens on the poor and middle class.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026
  • The middle class built the country, and unions built the middle class.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Of course, those already in the middle class will get richer, too.
    — Jordan McGillis, National Review, 29 Apr. 2021
  • There’s no middle class in acting salaries in film anymore.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • More than that, the city offered a wealth of services to the poor and the middle class.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Who counts as part of the middle class in Kansas City?
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The middle class is getting hollowed out.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 June 2026
  • One is that the middle class has never been just an income bracket.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 Jan. 2026
  • How is the middle class different now?
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • And that was a respectable thing for women of the upper middle class at that time.
    — Mariel Carr, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
  • So per usual, the middle class here is going to get hammered.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The savings go straight to the top while hollowing out the middle class.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • The idea is that poor people and the lower middle class don’t pay enough in taxes.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
  • The middle class is stagnating while the rich get even richer.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
  • In the nearer term, Russia’s poor and middle class will feel the heat.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Since there were few stars to break the bank for, the middle class benefited the most.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • Who are the upper middle class white ladies shooting guns and drinking who don’t work?
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Who are the upper middle class white ladies shooting guns and drinking who don't work?
    — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Fifty-nine per cent identified as middle class, and most lived in the South.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024

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