How to Use stratum in a Sentence

stratum

noun
  • So there is also a stratum of cat fur in all the creases and the top.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Those spots will cause uneven browning and scorching on the edges of the strata.
    — Sarah Digregorio, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • It’s built on a silicon wafer, and the first stratum is made up of silicon logic.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2017
  • The excavations shed light on a stratum of society and way of life that is still little known.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • By training, Laveau was a hairdresser, with clients in all social strata.
    — NOLA.com, 23 June 2017
  • But no one thing so seems to galvanize the masses, and the less numerous strata above, as pizza.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • Large plates include beef short ribs, pork Wellington, Chilean sea bass and vegetable strata.
    — Joyce Smith, kansascity, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Big, round notes resounded in all strata of her voice, seeming to flow as naturally as speech.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • Remembrance of words past also raises the art of the euphemism to its loftiest stratum.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • Can love ever transcend the strata of race, class, and entitlement?
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 May 2018
  • Mantle fires up the clambake, building the strata of ingredients in the cast iron, right over the coals.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2018
  • The next strata might do physical testing, such as agility drills or the vertical leap.
    — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 18 May 2018
  • And so stratigraphy — the study of layers (strata) of rock in relation to each other — was born.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2019
  • Mnuchin’s masterpiece, the deal that launched him into a new stratum of wealth, came in 2008.
    — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Among workers of all strata, one-quarter of new moms returned to work within just 10 days of giving birth.
    — Mary Emily O'Hara, NBC News, 15 June 2017
  • The victims tend to be people from diverse social and economic strata.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2016
  • All of it just another stratum in the atmosphere of my loneliness.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The Grammy catapulted her into a new stratum as an artist.
    — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • As the film world and fans mourned his passing Wednesday, sentiments came from all over the globe and all strata of celebrity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2020
  • But the gathering has a way of separating even the global elite into strata.
    — David Yanofsky, Quartz, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Those born into the top or bottom of the economic strata typically stay there.
    — Liz Weston, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The menu includes coddled egg with sweet potato hash, pecan salad with goat cheese, avocado toast and strata brulee.
    — Audrey Eads, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • There are two strata of justice in this country, one for those with connections and protection, and the other for those in the way.
    — WSJ, 16 Oct. 2016
  • The team has been searching under the high summer sun without success for the fossil-rich strata that braid through the arid rangeland here.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The sidewalks were silicone-slick; a bare patch of sidewalk hid a slight stratum of ice that would upend you in a second if the dog bolted on the leash.
    — Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The caves are the result of groundwater dissolving and washing away the porous limestone strata.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 26 July 2017
  • Four men hijack a subway and demand a million-dollar ransom, setting off a chain of events that touches every stratum of city life.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Throughout, there’s a sense that Ferrante’s novels and the letters are composed of the same thematic strata.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Another fossil collected from the same strata and location as the seed fern is of an insect that looks very much like a cockroach of today.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 19 July 2017
  • The event caps off a particularly tumultuous year for the stratum of rap on which both Kanye and Drake reside.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2021

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