How to Use working-class in a Sentence

working-class

1 of 2 adjective

• Back in the 1970s, strikes were part of the working-class culture.
  — Jane Holgate, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• Most working-class jobs require you to clock in, do what you’re told, and clock out.
  — John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
• One of 10 children, Jack was a true working-class hero.
  — Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
• Now, both Walz and Vance are wielding their working-class bona fides against each other and against the top of the ticket.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
• Now is the time to do what’s right for working-class and outer-borough New Yorkers.
  — Selvena Brooks-Powers, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
• Phillips is a member of a working-class family who moved to Broward at age 3.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2024
• The school, which sits in a working-class neighborhood filled with one-story homes, is among those that closed at the end of this school year.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2024
• Today, that village has become a working-class city that sprawls across the hills a few miles west of the Jezreel Valley.
  — Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• In their opulence, the John Wick movies make James Bond look backwoods and working-class.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
• The working-class themes of the film resonated with working actors on the picket lines.
  — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• Back in 1870, this neighborhood had been at the heart of the Black working-class community of New Haven.
  — Susanna Ashton, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
• That's not someone that stands for working-class people.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Those once-blue Rust Belt states are home to legions of older white working-class voters.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
• Her Crown Point would be on the Eastside, across the river from Gotham, and be a vibrant, tight-knit, working-class neighborhood.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
• Help Wanted posits questions to the landscape at large: What does the working-class novel look like in the 21st century?
  — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
• The violence highlighted how poor and working-class South Africans felt left behind by progress made since the end of apartheid.
  — Lynsey Chutel Joao Silva, New York Times, 28 May 2024
• Growing up in a working-class neighborhood in the Corona section of Queens, Mr. Young got an early taste of the streets.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Critics say Democrats are elitist and look down on working-class people.
  — John Blake, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024
• There are some great people who are working night and day to protect working-class people.
  — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
• The working-class Liverpudlians found the homoerotic themes in Mr. Ellis’ work to be eye-opening, to say the least.
  — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• For Trump, that is mostly older voters and white working-class voters, as well as men.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
• The bling is a bit more overt on Billions, to convey just how far Axelrod has come from his humble working-class roots.
  — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023
• Nika, a high school dropout, had left her home in a western province and joined her mom’s sister in a working-class neighborhood in the south of Tehran.
  — Hossein Derakhshan, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• For many working-class families, the time and money required was a deal-breaker.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Zayn and his siblings were raised in a working-class town in West Yorkshire, England, where Trisha is from.
  — Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024
• Hannington was born in 1957 to working-class Irish parents.
  — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024
• This working-class neighborhood sits about a 50-minute metro ride east of central London.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• These trips often brought him into living rooms of working-class British with their own Toby bugs.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2024
• By noon, Perry Park, in a working-class Latino neighborhood on the east side of town, was eerily quiet.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• One man Levine recently spoke to was sent from his working-class home in Bristol to live with a rich family in New Zealand.
  — Gregory Wakeman, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024

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working class

2 of 2 noun

• But the flip side of that is the working class is getting shut out.
  — Laura Finaldi, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Mar. 2022
• Students and the working class use the bus to get to school, work, or just around town.
  — Karen Girón, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• Helping the working class with child care--I'm for that.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2021
• But it had long been overlooked, or dismissed as the realm of broke students or the working class.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2022
• Their parents were working class, people were maybe on the dole.
  — Kyle Rice, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022
• The Democrats mustn’t give up on representing the working class.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
• For Rafaela Souza, a cook in Rio de Janeiro, the president hasn’t done enough to ease the economic pain of the working class.
  — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2022
• Carried on the hips of their fly-girl party rhymes was the indomitable spirit of the working class.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 24 Aug. 2021
• The wealthy will be able to control the timing and spacing of their children, and those who are poor and working class will not.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
• Among the sounds a person might have heard across Notre Dame’s various eras were the noises of the Parisian working class.
  — Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Why does the working class no longer support the party of working men and women?
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
• The student body is one of the most diverse of any college in the area, and unique as well for being largely working class.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• In this sense, his appeal to the working class is less direct than Rubio’s.
  — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2021
• But Payson did share one trait with the American working class: a love of baseball.
  — Nick Hirshon, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
• Unbeknownst to many, the singer was born and raised in the Bronx to working class Puerto Rican and Cuban parents.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2022
• The holiday’s founders sought to enact changes on behalf of the working class.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021
• As a working class area, its restaurants have always been top-notch.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
• Here, the working class lives next door to new-money immigrants.
  — Philip Wang, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
• In the biggest economies, the burden of the green transition has partly fallen on the working class.
  — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021
• That's not why working class people are voting for them.
  — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
• Is this about the economic anxiety of the white working class?
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
• Last August, Teixeira raised alarms that the non-white working class could follow suit, pointing to a Times/Siena poll of the 2024 race.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• The best and bawdiest experiences were found in the cabarets, street cafés and bars frequented by the working class.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• A century ago, a Czech playwright coined the word to refer to oppression of the working class.
  — John M. Jordan/mit Press Reader, Popular Science, 26 Jan. 2021
• Ryan is basing his campaign on 14 key issues, but the thrust of his pitch centers Ohio’s working class.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
• Scripps co-founded a newspaper empire in 1878 aimed at the working class.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
• Both candidates are seeking to court working class workers ahead of the Nov. 5 vote.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 17 Sep. 2024
• But in recent years, the problem has spread well beyond the working class and is now firmly entrenched in the middle class.
  — Paul Williams, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2022
• The share of exclusive zip codes in Las Vegas, long known as a magnet for the middle and working classes, went from 34% to 73%.
  — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 18 Oct. 2024
• Usually they're aimed at these white working class or suburban rural voters.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024