CASTE in a Sentence
Learn CASTE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
283 example sentences for CASTE, such as:
1. He has cast up his supper again.
2. He spared neither rank nor caste.
3. He was born into the lowest caste.
4. Ne'er cast a clout till May be out.
5. Never cast your pearls before swine.
2. He spared neither rank nor caste.
3. He was born into the lowest caste.
4. Ne'er cast a clout till May be out.
5. Never cast your pearls before swine.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of CASTE
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
caste
n. in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
n. a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 She had intended that the negroes should do the field work, while she and the convalescent girls attended to the house, but here she was confronted with a caste feeling even stronger than her own.
2 Thousands of house servants, the highest caste in the slave population, remained with their white folks, doing manual labor which had been beneath them in the old days.
3 She wished that she could work in the mill; that she did not belong to the caste of professional-man's-wife.
4 They were a special caste, neither above nor below the Haydocks, but apart, artists and adventurers.
5 In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges.
6 With a cultured parentage and a social caste to uphold him, he might have made a venturesome merchant or a West Point cadet.
7 They who live without knew not nor dreamed of that full power within, that mighty inspiration which the dull gauze of caste decreed that most men should not know.
8 While I was in charge of the Indian boys at Hampton, I had one or two experiences which illustrate the curious workings of caste in America.
9 He spared neither rank nor caste.
10 The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
11 This reasoning was clear and instantaneous; so that without giving time to the Inquisitor to recover from his surprise, he pierced him through and through, and cast him beside the Jew.
12 The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking measures and calculations with his eyes.
13 The sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was radiant.
14 He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
15 The child was standing with his back to the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean.
Example Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1 He was born into the lowest caste.
2 The Indian caste system is an example of social stratification.
3 The caste system shapes nearly every facet of Indian life.
4 He is not of your order: keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.
5 The caste refers to social system based on rigid distinctions of birth, rank, and wealth.
6 He claimed to be able to cast out demons.
7 He has cast up his supper again.
8 Ne'er cast a clout till May be out.
9 It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock.
10 Some journalists have cast doubt on the authenticity of the official version of events.
11 Don't cast out the foul water till you bring in the clean.
12 Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk.
13 Though you cast out nature with a fork, it will still return.
14 Coming events cast their shadows before them.
15 Never cast your pearls before swine.