Sentence examples for plebeian from high-quality English sources.

• They both indignantly refuse to consider such a plebeian union.

• Today's version is closer to accents that once would have been termed plebeian.

• This assembly developed from the plebeian assembly, which still continued to meet.

• It was a boy, bareheaded, ill shod, and clothed in coarse plebeian garments that were falling to rags.  

• According to the annalistic tradition, the first plebeian consul was elected for 366 bc.

• The orders and titles of nobility he issues do not have anything as plebeian as a price tag.

• Helped by the remnant of his plebeian supporters, Gaius organized an illegal counterdemonstration.

• In the later republic and under the empire (after 27 bce), the name plebeian continued to be used in the sense of commoner.

Use plebeian in a sentence.

• Farmers here in Alabama’s fertile Black Belt know there is much more to field peas than luck — or the plebeian variety swimming in your New Year’s bowl.

• Flaminius was not a patrician but a populist of the plebeian class, and his ambitions were matched by his arrogance and his desire to sway public opinion in his favour.

• It was only half a century later, as the consequences of pushing the earth out into plebeian orbit dawned on the priests, that it became too hot to handle, or even touch.

• Rochester might probably win that noble lady’s love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?’”

• During the regal period, social and economic differences began to shape the two classes, patrician and plebeian, whose struggles for political power dominated the early republic.

• It accordingly met within the city inside the pomerium and elected magistrates who did not exercise imperium (plebeian tribunes, plebeian aediles, and quaestors).

• "Paris Bistro Cooking" is, at first glance, one more in an endless succession of glamorous picture books, although the glamour comes from that most plebeian of institutions, the French bistro.

• But new, dizzying heights of snobbishness are revealed when we realise that, to members of the House of Lords, even this privileged bunch is considered too plebeian to have a trustworthy taste in champagne.

plebeian sentence examples

• Beneath these broad indicators, France is cleaved by profound forms of inequality: between urban and rural communities; full-time employees and temporary workers; graduates of prestigious universities and the plebeian masses.

• On the rare occasion he did, he invariably proved great copy: gaily describing Tony Blair as a "pirate" whose "socialist revolution" created a "plebeian culture", dismissing Dickens as a writer who died of "self parody" and skewering EM Forster as a man who knew nothing about India "but the garden boys whom he wished to seduce."

• The economic dislocation caused by the Gallic attack helped renew the conflict between the patricians and the plebeians; nevertheless, before the end of the 3rd century bc, through a series of judicious compromises, the plebeians had won access to all the offices of the state, and the actions (plebiscita) of the plebeian assembly had been made legally binding on all Romans.

• The functions of the aediles were threefold: first, the care of the city (repair of temples, public buildings, streets, sewers, and aqueducts; supervision of traffic; supervision of public decency; and precaution against fires); second, the charge of the provision markets and of weights and measures and the distribution of grain, a function for which Julius Caesar added two plebeian aediles called ceriales; third, organization of certain public games, the Megalesian and the Roman games being under the curule aediles and the Plebeian games as well as those of Ceres and Flora being under the plebeian.