How to Use working-class in a Sentence
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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 -
As a result, poor and working-class Blacks in Marvell were able to own their homes.
— arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2025 -
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 -
The sweeping biopic charts the rise of the pop star, from his days as a cheeky 8-year-old in a working-class U.K. town to his battles with the usual pitfalls of fame and money.
— Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 -
The truth is that most working-class New Yorkers rely on buses and subways.
— Midori Valdivia, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025 -
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 -
Trump appeals to working-class voters who feel like they have been left behind.
— Vincent Trometter, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025 -
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 -
By virtue of her working-class background, Margot isn't as beholden to Slowik's genius as the rest of the diners.
— Randall Colburn, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2025 -
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 -
The former governor, a moderate Democrat, is gunning for the same base of working-class, Black outer borough residents that helped Adams win in 2021.
— Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025 -
The governor’s office also underscores that Maryland’s standard deduction is only a third of Virginia’s, meaning that some poor and working-class residents who would pay no income tax in Virginia make enough to pay income tax in Maryland.
— Paul Kiefer, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2025
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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 -
If the Democrats want to call the working class back home, something must be on the table.
— Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024 -
Helping the working class with child care--I'm for that.
— John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2021 -
Biden, in other words, has a chance to woo back working class voters of all races to the Democrats.
— J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020 -
Joe Biden and Democrats are struggling with working class whites.
— NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020 -
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 -
With the working class in power, peace would be assured.
— John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020 -
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 -
Biden has pledged to raise taxes on wealthy people and not the middle class and working class.
— Hope Yen, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020 -
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 -
Capitalism was the sin that had caused the war; only the working class was free from crime.
— John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020 -
His home is in a working class neighborhood in the city, cut into the South Hills of Pittsburgh.
— Kim Strong, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2020 -
Where has all the money gone, if not to the American middle and working class?
— John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025 -
And Joe Biden clearly is on the side of working class America.
— NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020 -
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 -
Macomb has long been a swing county with many working class voters who have been the core of Mr. Trump's base.
— Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020 -
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 old mill town of Lawrence, largely Hispanic and working class, the swing toward Trump was a whopping thirty-one points.
— Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 -
The outer borough working class, not the Manhattan elite, will decide the winner and that’s the coalition of Cuomo’s electoral successes again and again.
— Bradley Honan, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025
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