Sentence examples for the better classes from inspiring English sources

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

In the suburb of Paco is a bull-ring; but it is not attended by the better classes, and it offers but a sorry spectacle.

"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".

In the 1890's it found its most receptive audience among the "rosewater revolutionaries" who belonged to what was called, with the frankness of the age, The Better Classes.

In the suburb of Paco is a bull-ring; but it is not attended by the better classes, and it offers but a sorry spectacle.Bull-fights have never made the headway in the Philippines that they have in Cuba.

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.

You'd like to blend in with the better class of creative directors and gallery assistants?

"It has been drawn almost exclusively from the better class of artisan, the upper and the lower middle classes.

In recession, this has been squeezed to as little as 10%, a figure the better class of ghost will disdain.

This surely reflects the better class of runner the National has attracted since the fences were modified and the race conditions altered.

The better class of evangelical preachers these days – those who aim to attract a more upscale clientele to their suburban megachurches – don't say much about salvation.