| 1. | Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of sense. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 2. | Which was an instance of what I meant when I said that deep down in him there was a certain stratum of sense. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 3. | The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 4. | If all science is founded more or less on a stratum of facts, there can be no harm in making known to mankind generally certain matters intimately connected with their private, domestic, and social life. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana |