How to Use white-collar in a Sentence

white-collar

adjective

• Enter LinkedIn, the brag board of choice for the white-collar worker.
  — Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2024
• The case was a boon to white-collar lawyers and a shot across the bow of international sports.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
• Most of my cousins got white-collar jobs or joined the public sector.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
• These are people for whom a white-collar job at a call center is a reach.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
• At first glance, this seems like any other white-collar scheme.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 June 2024
• According to the chairman of one of the U.K.’s biggest chains, the trend has become something of a white-collar crime.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
• About half of those who broke into the Capitol were white-collar workers.
  — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
• But those threats were aimed at white-collar tech workers who were not unionized.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
• For the first time since the pandemic began, more white-collar workers in the U.K. work in the office full-time than on a hybrid schedule.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• Dude can’t talk for more than five seconds without confessing to a white-collar crime.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
• Typically, in white-collar crimes, the bigger the financial loss, the longer the sentence.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
• These layoffs, many of which are for white-collar roles, have led to a job market squeeze, pushing quit rates to pre-pandemic lows.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
• The past year was a turning (and at times tipping) point in the white-collar workforce, which was rife with layoffs and return-to-office mandates.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2023
• Blue horizons Younger folks are losing trust in white-collar careers.
  — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
• The offices that provide the white-collar jobs so many Indians aspire to were shuttered overnight.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Some employers may soon have to pad their white-collar workers’ checks with overtime pay.
  — Amber Burton, Fortune, 19 July 2023
• Another reason for why AI could affect white-collar jobs the most?
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2023
• Normally, this is a beat filled with white-collar crime, so this definitely has been outside of the norm.
  — Miranda Kennedy, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
• This is most noticeable in white-collar jobs that can be done remotely.
  — Sean Manning, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• His sentence ranks as one of the longest imposed on a white-collar defendant in recent years.
  — J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• On this very site, MetLife pioneered the communal white-collar workspace.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
• Chandler was the yuppie of the group, with a well-paying white-collar job his friends did not entirely understand.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• For most white-collar jobs, those are vestiges of the past, Zappacosta believes.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
• In 2021, when metaverse chatter reached a fever pitch, the idea was sometimes discussed as a replacement for the white-collar office in a world of remote work.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• Over the same period, those in more white-collar professions saw more modest gains.
  — David Harrison, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2023
• This data — text, image, voice, and video data — forms the foundation of today’s white-collar work.
  — Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• In the recent annals of white-collar crime, Bankman-Fried's sentence is similar to what others found guilty have received.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• So, the aesthetics and the composition of my films have transitioned into a more white-collar feel.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• Even with the new boost to an average base wage of more than $22 an hour, Amazon warehouse workers’ pay is still far lower than that of their white-collar colleagues.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
• There were homeless people, but a sense of order prevailed on the busy blocks where thousands were employed by law firms, financial institutions and other white-collar companies.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025