Sentence examples for up to middle from inspiring English sources

The family, Ms. Minogue said, "worked up to middle class".

"They're generally older – mid-20s up to middle age – and they're well dressed".

Quijada worked his way up to middle management at the D.M.V. in Sacramento, eventually overseeing its Web site.

But, as he faces up to middle age, he begins to wonder whether it's time to change.

In his 30-plus years working for Amtrak, Greg Lebed had worked his way up to middle manager.

After dropping out of college he returned to another store, working his way up to middle management before being fired for trying to buy the company.

Marty's triumph is to lift his family up to middle-class status.

You either sign up to middle-class values and aspirations, or, let's face it, sooner or later, you're screwed.

Dominic Cooke, when he took over the Royal Court in 2007, promised plays that would hold a mirror up to middle-class dilemmas and reflect "the crisis in Britain in liberalism".

The vast majority of Lakeview residents are happy to welcome people of every color to the neighborhood, but there is definitely a caveat: make yourself at home, as long as you live up to middle-class standards -- be polite, be fairly quiet, and don't gather on sidewalks, in alleys, or on streets.

We assail extremist ideologies at home, while arming and cosying up to Middle Eastern dictatorships whose kingdoms export these ideologies, and are a source of funds and arms for extremist groups in Iraq and Syria.