How to Use the proletariat in a Sentence

the proletariat

noun
  • Our deals page is the proletariat's pick.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
  • All the commanding heights must be in the hands of the proletariat.
    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare — the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But bohemians were not serious candidates for alliances with the proletariat either.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Marx, in turn, cast the dialectic in economic terms, establishing the emancipation of the proletariat as history’s goal.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • But the vast majority of players not on that top tier, the proletariat, will benefit from the MLB proposal and its spend-at-least this much payroll floor.
    — Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The Bolsheviks had an ideology, a plan to destroy the old social order and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026

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