How to Use caste in a Sentence

caste

noun
Definition of castenext
Synonyms for castenext
  • He was from a higher caste.
  • The big issue with caste is who is inside the caste system and who is outside.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Roughly 70 players show up, and there is a caste system of sorts.
    — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 18 May 2018
  • Rather, Trump is the true elite, a caste of one, the übermensch who is smart, rich, and able to become president.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
  • In the South, lynch mobs enforced a dehumanizing racial caste system.
    — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
  • Bharti’s work often defies Hindu caste leaders who maintain a tight grip on village life.
    — Author: Shashank Bengali, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
  • Such social restrictions become more rigid higher up the caste hierarchy.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • That’s particularly true of those who practice the art of the griot — the hereditary caste of bards, instrumentalists and singers.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 18 June 2018
  • Cossacks were historically a mix between colonists and a military caste on the Russian Empire’s south and eastern frontiers.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2018
  • In my work, India is a culture with a multitude of religions, castes, languages, colors, people — far bigger a melting pot than New York.
    — Teen Vogue, 15 June 2018
  • The glossy toothed leaves are dark green with a bluish caste, and the berries are bright red.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Oct. 2022
  • But ants in the reproductive caste, whose sole job is to lay eggs, can live 10 to 16 months.
    — Yao-Hua Law, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
  • His face was bronzed by the desert sun, his features were hard and stern and to emphasize the caste a pair of navy 44s were slung from his belt.
    — Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • After nine days, more foragers had died than ants of any other caste; all of the queens were still alive.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2018
  • Speaking of the haves and have-nots, NBC has set up a caste system where not all sports are created equal.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
  • Rahul Dambale, a Dalit activist from the nearby city of Pune, said justice for members of his caste is rare.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Their goal proved to be the expansion of a racial caste system in peacetime thought to have been abolished through war.
    — Time, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In recent years, South Asians have been pushing for caste protections on the U.S.
    — Adam Beam, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But the push for caste-equity has been sweeping schools and institutions all over the U.S. in the last few years.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Singh Bal How India’s far right is conquering castes—and the country.
    — Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2023
  • And as Indians have settled in other parts of the world, the caste system has followed them.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The classroom caste system of fashion has always been around.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
  • Police said the four men, all from an upper caste, have been arrested.
    — Fox News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Of its 21 members, only two were women and the rest were largely upper-caste men.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The caste system places people in rigid categories at birth.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • Her feeling, her idea—and it’s not born with her—is that race is secondary, that a caste system is primary.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • In the context of her argument, the shrink joke, with its caste and class presuppositions, cuts a little close to the bone.
    — Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • The right not to be offended may be a concession to an emerging caste system.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The country mourns Nia Wilson through protest; in India, a dominant caste wants more.
    — Jennie Neufeld, Vox, 27 July 2018
  • Mukherjee shows that the insurgency has flourished in districts where the British colonists ruled through traditional princes or the local landlord caste instead of with their own bureaucracy.
    — Shivaji Mukherjee, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021

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