How to Use working-class in a Sentence

working-class

1 of 2 adjective
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This working-class neighborhood sits about a 50-minute metro ride east of central London.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • What was clear in the working-class neighborhood of Kingsessing was that an idyllic evening had been transformed into a scene of terror.
    — Tassanee Vejpongsa and Ron Todt, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • The exterior brick-line facade has been kept mostly untouched as a nod to the building's working-class roots.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Only one person, a working-class husband and dad, is local.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Young often played a working-class Italian American and had a penchant for bringing depth to tough-guy roles.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Maybe some of the white working-class voters who have seen three weeks of great coverage for Harris, and particularly white working-class women, will eventually turn against her as the campaign goes on.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
  • But over the course of the show’s three seasons, Rob transforms from a debaucherous party boy desperate to shed his working-class roots into an empathetic young man questioning his role in the Pierpoint system.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • De Niro faced pushback from New York’s non-leftist working class.
    — Armond White, National Review, 5 June 2024
  • The song and video pay homage to my grandfather and the working class and the struggle, but this song really is about thinking my promised land was a place.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Protests in 2019 were shaped by economic hardship and the frustrations of the working class, Ghaemi said.
    — Dan De Luce, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Or an authentic working class hero, which is something to be?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Monáe’s working class background is often brought to light in her outfits through black-and-white motifs.
    — Isabel Lord, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • The city’s working class has been hit hard by such measures, which have left the service industry reeling.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2022
  • Beyond his own tax evasion and fraud, Trump’s tax cuts helped billionaires for the first time pay less taxes than the working class.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Mamdani said the goal of the pilot had been to ease economic pressures on working class New Yorkers.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
  • Joe Biden made history by joining us on our picket line last September and has stood shoulder to shoulder with the working class throughout his term in office.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2024

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