Ladder in example sentence

It is a hope held by Americans, in the working and middle classes as well as the working poor, of being lifted to a higher rung on the socioeconomic ladder, not a rise of the ladder itself: the dream of a higher income or social station relative to the average.

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So he went to the Church of Nativity and brought back an old ladder that was so old that it could have seen Jesus being born.

BJ: This is Adrian and Thys Stander, who went on to actually design the cane system for the horse, and our next-door neighbor Katherine, riding on a ladder.

She is able to climb a ladder in the park, push her scooter or kick a ball across the grass.

We collected data on problems with social gradients, the kind of problems that are more common at the bottom of the social ladder.

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