Examples of workingman in a Sentence
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At the time, denim was a workingman’s textile that women rarely wore.
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Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
Ryan Gramlich, Dartmouth — Touchdown runs of 1, 9 and 6 yards punctuated a workingman’s performance for the junior, who amassed 79 yards on 17 carries for the Indians in a 25-13 win over Greater New Bedford.
—Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
Braque’s housepainter past has long been part of the Cubist mythos, often leveraged into a kind of workingman street cred, but here it is granted a particular and critical role.
—Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
Those tweets helped cement Musk's reputation as a brash outsider, a workingman's billionaire, Grygiel said.
—David Klepper, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
Manchin used the snafu to further tar his wealthy opponent—who had supported NAFTA and opposed the minimum wage—as a fake friend of the workingman.
—Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
Blass owned a workingman’s hands, thick with scuffed, ashy knuckles.
—New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
Ryan Gramlich, Dartmouth — Touchdown runs of 1, 9 and 6 yards punctuated a workingman’s performance for the junior, who amassed 79 yards on 17 carries for the Indians in a 25-13 win over Greater New Bedford.
—Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
Braque’s housepainter past has long been part of the Cubist mythos, often leveraged into a kind of workingman street cred, but here it is granted a particular and critical role.
—Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
Those tweets helped cement Musk's reputation as a brash outsider, a workingman's billionaire, Grygiel said.
—David Klepper, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
Manchin used the snafu to further tar his wealthy opponent—who had supported NAFTA and opposed the minimum wage—as a fake friend of the workingman.
—Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
Blass owned a workingman’s hands, thick with scuffed, ashy knuckles.
—New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/workingman. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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workingman
noun
work·ing·man
ˈwər-kiŋ-ˌman 
: one who works for wages usually at manual labor or in industry
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