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How to use second-class in a sentence

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Gradually I became the drudge and, what's more, accepted my role as a kind of second-class citizen.
The embarrassment of having a foreign head of state is compounded by our treatment as second-class subjects.
We need to find ways of ensuring that shy people can live in this coming transparent society without becoming second-class citizens.
It will maybe not be first-class, but even if it is second-class, it would be nice to be on that train.
It is not the first time a cost-cutting exercise by the Royal Mail has lumbered Hampshire residents with a second-class service.
There will always be candidates, but first-class, and even second-class, candidates will be harder to get.
I had pointed out that having a second class of membership rendered a lot of people second-class members and they didn't all like it.
We want these children to do as well as other children, not as second-class type of students.
Therefore promoters tend to treat local bands like second-class citizens, with quality control no longer a factor.
From that day on, one mind-altering neighbourhood meeting at a time, Toronto stops being a second-class copy and becomes a first-class original.
We would want to be sure that the doctors are properly trained so the victims are not getting a second-class service.
In an age when women can have it all, she decided to leave it all for second-class subservience.
The train, which has seven second-class sleeper coaches with a pantry car, has 504 seats.
I took my place in an empty second-class compartment, and sat there quietly till the train should start.
The one possible problem with second-class compartments, especially on longer train rides, has always been the bathrooms.
The remaining thirty accommodated eighty-three second-class passengers each.
When the train started loading, the crowd mobbed the blue-green second-class carriages.
The Bhil women, who clambered into the second-class compartment of a train for the first time, have made a symbolic statement.
One does not sit in a first-class coach if the train ticket is for a second-class seat.
When I first laid eyes on the city of Ancona it was from the back of a hot, stuffy train, where I was awkwardly crammed into a second-class seat.
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The fates of nations are shaped not only in boardrooms but in second-class train compartments.
And when she came to see him she also travelled via train with a second-class ticket.
During one eight-hour shift last week the reporter saw an estimated 7,000 pieces of first-class mail being handled with second-class post.
He had left university with a second-class honours degree after accidentally overdosing on benzedrine.
Aoife was in Dublin on Saturday to accept the first prize award in her category for first and second-class pupils.
When Ferry got his lower second-class degree in 1968, he applied for a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, who turned him down.
Various protesting critics seem to view the less-wealthy as second-class citizens.
We're second-class citizens when it comes it political representation and participation.
You don't have to make the observation that, in so many ways, aboriginal people are second-class citizens in Australia.
Millions of workers would remain second-class citizens for many years, since as non-citizens they will not be afforded basic democratic rights.
His relatives would have been considered second-class citizens, but they had the means to send him to the United States for his education.
If there's no law that says that I'm a second-class citizen, then how do they justify their bigotry and their hatred?
Earlier that evening, in front of a full town meeting, the mayor publicly referred to Bill as a second-class citizen.
If you're an evangelical, there was a long period of time when you felt as if you were being treated as a second-class citizen in this country.
She said that because same-sex marriages aren't sanctioned, it's as though our society views her son as a second-class citizen.
Consequently, all members of ethnic minorities were liable to become second-class citizens from one day to the next.
If IT people are second-class citizens in your organization when it comes to training and retention, CEOs might want to rethink that.
It's true that we're treated like second-class citizens, but we try not to behave as though we are.
There should be no second-class citizens in this country where the law is concerned.
The travelling folk, or tinkers, were often treated as second-class citizens, with heartbreaking consequences.
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They were not metics, or the second-class citizens of the Occupied Territories.
But in the long term it is difficult to see prosperous patients settling for second-class status.
In Ohio, more than 155,000 voters were shunted to these second-class ballots.
One can't make a vego feel like a second-class citizen by giving them only a proportion of the varied evening's repast.
Buying second-class stamps could save you money this Christmas without delaying your cards to loved ones, according to the post watchdog.
The Federal Opposition says most students would get a second-class education under plans canvassed by the Government's higher education review.
Based on shared experiences as second-class citizens, Chicanos and Arab immigrants are building an alliance in Los Angeles.
The few pretenders who remained were a disappointing assortment of dim, second-class felons and impotent thugs.
Perhaps their apprehension comes from a lingering inferiority complex which has not yet matured beyond its second-class status.
Seven of these cars were composite, each carrying twenty first-class and fifty-eight second-class passengers.
Re-reading what I wrote it seems to be that it all boils down to a general lack of concern for the comfort of second-class passengers.
My stamp collection is severely depleted, and I miss standing over the kettle every so often steaming off unused second-class stamps.
While so many people have second-class votes that do not count towards any result, millions are deprived of the means to make their voice heard.
Those who had the temerity to challenge segregationist laws that treated African-Americans as second-class citizens faced arrest, violence, or death.
Using second-class parts for the repair was false economy because they soon broke and had to be fixed again.
He complained he felt like a second-class citizen, but everyone felt put upon that day.
But in this theater, they are still only second-class citizens, waiting in the aisles of history.
Neal's grown-up theatre company is called Second Class because one of his teachers said that people wouldn't buy tickets for second-class theatre.
This is the first time that a court has gone on record to say that sexual minorities are not second-class citizens, and that they cannot be discriminated against.
Addressing the rally, the union conveyer said it was time management listened to the workforce instead of treating them like second-class citizens.
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When I was there, I was just a second-class citizen, and I didn't feel even I was a human because I was completely dehumanised by the whole political system.
How can anyone be proud to live in a province where the sick and the elderly living in our rural communities are treated like second-class citizens?
Many members without guaranteed pensions have long argued that they were mis-sold policies because they were never informed that they were technically second-class members.
Despite repeated FBI assurances that cops are equal partners in the war against terrorism, local cops say they frequently feel like second-class citizens.
There was no feeling of being second-class citizens or lesser beings.
The ex-felon is at best a second-class citizen and at worst a non-citizen.
You don't want your franchisees to feel like second-class citizens.
These second-class tickets cost a very pretty penny, didn't they?
Five travellers share a second-class compartment on the Dover train.
In order to draw as little attention as possible, I left Ping and and his father in a third-class compartment and settled myself into a second-class car.
What we're getting is almost a movement to say those people are second-class citizens, they can vote, they can pay taxes, but they can't serve in high administration jobs.
When I told them Sungai Golok they tried to tell me that both first and second-class carriages for the trains were booked out and suggested I try a VIP bus.
Although Banalata is not formally defined as a widow because she never married, she is still subject to social conventions that make her a second-class citizen.
As a women's movement pioneer, Susan B. Anthony fought against the dictums of those who would vilipend women by treating them as second-class citizens.
Women are still treated like second-class citizens in many ways.
They do it because they want women to be submissive, second-class citizen.
He did not see why he should be treated like a second-class citizen for one day longer.
Many of them complain about the second-class role they were relegated to.
Postwatch has recommended that customers sending Christmas cards this year should always use second-class stamps because of Royal Mail's poor past performance in December.
The company has been unable to reach delivery targets for first and second-class mail, partly due to delays caused by the poor state of Britain's rail system.
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Each first-class cavalryman, three or four second-class cavalrymen and sixteen infantrymen had a slave or paid servant to look after baggage and perform menial chores.
They are not second-class citizens to be scorned acrimoniously.
I couldn't believe how nice second-class was on Japan's private trains.
It suggests the previous political and economic top dogs have reconciled themselves to the fact that they are in a sense going to be second-class citizens.
For decades we were second-class citizens in the Soviet Union.
While in the service, Franklin experienced racism on a daily basis and realized that education was the only way he could avoid becoming a second-class citizen.
Why are they saying you only took a second-class degree at Oxford?
Being treated as slaves or second-class citizens on the basis of a racist ideology, they opposed racist value judgements but accepted the essential differentness of races.
The second-class had wooden seats like park benches and that was it.
Last but not least, there's Honey Brown, an impious, conniving, gold-digging stripper who is tired of living like a second-class citizen.
Well I can assure him I feel far from being a second-class citizen, I ama British pensioner with a long memory and proud to be.
It seems the Romulans have a sister planet called Remus and the Orc-like Remans have long resented their second-class status.
In fact he's starting to treat me like a second-class citizen and says quite hurtful things.
I am a non-smoker whose husband is a two packet-a-day man and I am fed up with him being treated as a second-class citizen.
Women were still second-class citizens, and Constance became a very early women's libber.
They feel they are being treated like second-class citizens, despite all their hard work over the last few months.
Perhaps the most ridiculed second-class citizens are people who drive mini-vans.
The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.
I've spent all this time with people who needlessly worried about being second-class citizens and having an inferiority complex,'' he says.
This way she can daydream about that heady night of breaking class barriers while doing her chores as second-class citizen in her stepfamily.
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Biddy Owens, a 17-year-old equipment manager, is part of a first-class baseball team but feels like a second-class citizen.
Lord McConnell insisted gays were not second-class citizens with fewer rights, as he called on MSPs and ministers to go for equality over discrimination.
So why is it that ST Vaughan's letters are printed immediately and other people are treated as second-class citizens and their letters put to the bottom of the pile?
My name is Mike and I am, apparently, a second-class citizen.

Examples from Classical Literature

They still have a strong element of descent in the matrilinear line and women aren't second-class citizens.
Down on the lower deck was a gang of second-class passengers, about forty of them, seemin' to be dagoes and the like.
They were seated in a second-class railway carriage by this time.
A second-class compartment of a corridor carriage, in motion.
The second-class and steerage passengers were equally anxious.
The lists had just appeared, and he was only a second-class man.
Amongst us he is looked upon almost as a second-class citizen compared with the other two.
Foochow, the capital of Fukien Province, ranks third among our second-class seaports.
The dailies actually printed in Munich are all called second-class by the public.
I'm sure, if I had HIS imperial, I could pick and choose among all the second-class heiresses in town.
We went to the railroad depot, toward evening, and Ferguson got tickets for a second-class carriage.
She proposed that he should meet her in the second-class waiting-room at Victoria Station.
The man will go second-class, and will take a return-ticket.
He sent The Yellow buskin and was awarded a second-class medal.
I took these sketches in the second-class schoolroom of Mdlle.
Father Victor, good man, took him to the station, put him into an empty second-class next to Colonel Creighton's first, and bade him farewell with genuine feeling.

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