Middle-class has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves. | |
| 2. | The middle-class woman placed value on her necklace because she didn't want to forgo the privileges of her class. | |
| 3. | The typical middle-class American baby comes home from the hospital to sleep in his own bed in his own room. | |
| 4. | The increase in amateur stealing on the part of middle-class youth indicates a break-down in the morality of the affluent. | |
| 5. | Mary comes from the upper middle-class. | |
| 6. | Her father is a middle-class English man. | |
| 7. | President Obama’s middle-class tax cuts, first signed into law in December 2010, are providing tax relief for 160 million workers to help jumpstart the economy. For the typical family, that's $40 extra with each pay check. | |
| 8. | To prepare Americans for the jobs of the future and help restore middle-class security, we have to out-educate the world and that starts with a strong school system. | |
| 9. | This is considered an upper-middle-class neighborhood. | |
| 10. | Tom grew up in a middle-class family. |