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How to use plebs in a sentence

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As Nietzsche said they would, the plebs have got steadily Denser, the optimates Quicker still on the uptake.
Tressell wrote his book for the coffee tables of the dissenting middle classes rather than for plebs like Towers and me.
Other magistracies, the aedileship and the tribunate of the plebs, might be held between quaestorship and praetorship, but were not obligatory.
When you turn on your TV, you may see a wizened old man making plebs laugh with his bad wigs and big chin, but we see someone else entirely.
The turf was actually decent and they were kind enough to let us plebs sit in the expensive seats.
The truly posh very rarely have much to do with this, so it tends to be the upper middle class vs the utter plebs.
And then today some delightful woman decided she would join the plebs and go swimming.
The Big Brother housemates have chosen two unlucky plebs who face eviction on Friday.
I am by no means a pop music fan but in the run-up to Christmas it seems the army of plebs who buy this bilge lose any last remnant of taste and self-respect they ever had.
Orwell was indeed unsociable, anti-feminist and homophobic, but only ambiguously anti-Semitic, and by no means such a dewy-eyed idealiser of the plebs as some have imagined.
Just right of the Diribitorium, the Emperor Claudius let build a large square to be used for the free handing out of wheat to the plebs of Rome.
It is as if you all have some higher calling and know what is good for the ordinary plebs of Europe.
Home helps were employed as staff, with well-earned proper pay and conditions including a small pension, now considered too large for plebs.
Parliament has ayes, nos and also abstentions, but the plebs have no such option.
The Birmingham MP was accused of calling officers plebs following a dispute outside Downing Street.
Until then, they should stick to their ceviches and capriccios and leave the over-cooking to us plebs.
He also wanted to relate to and connect with the concerns of the plebs and lay people.
He depicts the Flavians as populists and underlines Flavian messages that the new dynasty was better at aiding the Roman plebs than its predecessors.
London Labour 'luvvies' seem to regard local members as plebs.
Following the end of this term, Septimius Severus travelled back to Rome, taking up office as tribune of the plebs, with the distinction of being candidatus of the emperor.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The plebs plebis think that the cause is wind or flatus, and that they get rid of the ague by belching.
Little of either grace or dignity will be observed in the terpsichorean efforts of the Roman plebs of the present day.
These people, the plebs as they were called, were despised by many patricians.
But the plebs of later days is not to be explained on one hypothesis only.
Not the theatre of plebs, the proletariat, but the theatre of A People.
And we still have an excellent array of the plebs of the stage.
Only in theory can the mass of the plebs have been clients at any time.
Publius Servilius Casca was by his grace tribune of the plebs.
And the enthusiasm was not confined to the blood of the plebs.
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