How to Use blue-collar in a Sentence

blue-collar

adjective

• Higher prices for rent and food, areas where blue-collar workers tend to spend a bigger chunk of their income, hurt the middle- and low-income groups hardest.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
• Rural and blue-collar whites have been trending Republican.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
• At stake on Election Day, however, is much more than which party can lay claim to Lackawanna’s blue-collar identity.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
• The South isn’t the only place in the country that has small towns and blue-collar people.
  — Michael Rietmulder, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• In the growth of blue-collar work, Biden has much to celebrate.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
• That comes from a blue-collar family that he was raised in.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2024
• There is a dire shortage of blue-collar workers in the United States.
  — Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
• And that's just playing hard-nosed, blue-collar, grind-it-out baseball.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
• Both Harris and Trump are courting blue-collar workers in the state.
  — Hadriana Lowenkron, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
• This is good news for frontline and blue-collar workers.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• All of us rely on workers in both white- and blue-collar roles every day.
  — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The Boarhog’s clientele skews blue-collar, enhancing its salt-of-the-earth appeal.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• But the defining chapter of Weil’s life on the barricades was her stint as a blue-collar worker.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• And that would be bad news for the workers who rely on it, as well as the public officials who want to keep blue-collar jobs in the city.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• Gunslinger Spideys, dinosaur Spideys, blue-collar Spideys, proud-dad Spideys, and a few who are more spider than man pass through the frame.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
• These were blue-collar people, people looked down on them.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2024
• The storm tore up the roof, causing water damage across Samari’s 635 units, home to retirees and blue-collar workers.
  — Jean Eaglesham, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
• Starmer comes from a blue-collar background but would also be the first prime minister since the 1950s to already have a knighthood.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 July 2024
• So the jobs that will be the most challenged will be those that are routine and repetitive—and that includes both blue-collar and white-collar work.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
• My past films tended to focus more on blue-collar workers.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• Much like Young’s, LeBlanc’s lyrics on Coyote are blue-collar poetry that take flight on the wings of rock, country, and folk music.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
• Some migrants find jobs in the informal economy or are paid cash to do blue-collar work.
  — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Why are the Heat always going for blue-collar players, over guys like Omer that have a higher ceiling?
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• Six years into his blue-collar gig, dominoes began to fall.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
• In a blue-collar town where Spanish and English seamlessly mix, guns have long been a constant.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• Turns out, these blue-collar classics are still widely available, still priced right, and still solid deer guns.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024
• Made up not of James Bond types but rather basic, blue-collar folks like construction workers, plumbers, etc. — gritty teams who get down to the nuts and bolts.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2024
• Vladimir Rumyantsev was a blue-collar worker in Vologda.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Apr. 2023
• A lot of 'em will go be a blue-collar worker, whether that's at Walmart, or a local business, or some sort of convenience store.
  — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• The mere threat of a strike won longshoremen, UPS drivers, and other blue-collar workers big pay raises.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024