Sentence examples for there were middle from inspiring English sources

But some congregants said Mr. Green appeared to be out of touch with his audience, tailoring his remarks to low-income blacks, when many of the people there were middle- and upper-class African-Americans.

There were middle aged people who never worked again.

If we didn't speak directly, there were middle men who would communicate between us.

There were middle school computer prodigies, One Direction experts and a troublemaker or two, along with Kylie and Kendall, every week.

There were Middle Eastern and Indian elements in his music, slipped into a repertory that encompassed the Beatles, Thelonious Monk and his own compositions like "Blue Raga".

"While doing surveillance aerially, we had seen that there were Middle Easterners aboard and Somalis, and that socially they were not intermingling," said Cmdr.

There were middle-class people desperate to stay in town, and not being able to.

Instead of rolling hills and idyllic trellises, there were middle-class houses and fenced yards, Volvos and Nissans parked neatly out front.

There were middle-aged veterans of the civil rights movement for whom this seemed the crowning achievement of a lifetime of struggles.

There were middle-class white people who were gay, but there were no middle-class white people who were black, or poor.

The economy was in freefall, there was a general strike, there was capital flight and there were middle-class protests on the streets of Buenos Aires because the banks were closed for business.