Sentence examples for better classes from inspiring English sources

"It's the better classes that are in back of Chamberlain," she says.

Remote Vologda became the buttered toast of Europe, its superior recipe demanded by better classes of people across the Continent.

"In all cities, the better classes -- the business men -- are the sources of corruption," Steffens wrote in "The Shame of the Cities," "but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes".

You can still see the illustrious connection in the naming of things - Blundellsands was built in 1865 by Nicholas Blundell as "a residential place for the better classes", giving its name to schools and roads; and even today you don't travel far in Lancashire before running into a Blundell Arms.

However, he indicates his awareness of the persuasive attacks by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other like-minded reformers on the very widely practiced custom of wet-nursing the infants and toddlers of the better classes, as well as the same reformers' complaints against the vanity and egotism of women who employed wet-nurses (see Landes 1988, chapter 3).

An article in Harper's Magazine (1883), attributed to Harry Hubbell Kane, describes a hashish-house in New York frequented by a large clientele, including males and females of "the better classes," and further talks about parlors in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.

A better class of student".

'This town needs a better class of criminal,' he quips.

"Our goal is to bring a better class of tourist.

Such changes might attract a better class of leader.

A better class of plastic has been deployed inside, too.