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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bynum’s modesty may be a product of his working-class upbringing.
  — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• The Primer is designed for an aristocrat, but your novel also traces the stories of middle- and working-class girls who interact with versions of the book.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2024
• Until the working-class plumbers achieve ultimate box office glory, here are all the records that were super-smashed in the film’s opening weekend.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
• Most elite colleges, including Penn and Yale, trail larger state schools with more working-class students.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
• Gabriela, could expand on the particular issue of trying to make it as an artist with a working-class background, as portrayed in the series?
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• Could a new labor movement—one not built or seen as the exclusive province of working-class white men—reclaim power for workers across the board?
  — Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• At the hotel’s restaurant, Locanda Sotto gli Archi, the menu is filled with old-fashioned working-class dishes.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
• However, most of Trump’s support comes from white, working-class voters who don’t have a college degree.
  — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2024
• One activist who goes by Gator had only just turned 18 and drifted north after a working-class childhood on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana.
  — Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
• Growing up in working-class Hartford, Conn., La Salle became interested in the arts through his desire to be a writer.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• Because that happened here a few years ago with Roseanne, with the revival’s success leading to more stories about working-class Americans.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• Keeping the focus on sunny vibes — the melodies were felt as much as heard — Ivy is ultimately a practitioner of working-class pop.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• All forms of public housing have been eradicated, sending the working class to the outskirts of the city.
  — Gerrick Kennedy, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2022
• The song decries the rich and powerful who exploit working classes.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• This will also hit women, working class and low income workers the most.
  — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2022
• The Italian working class created the dish out of scarcity in the early 1900s, as a way to tenderize cheap meat and soften stale bread.
  — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
• The vast majority of the country’s working class does not toil on the factory floor with a union to look out for their interests.
  — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
• Both have highlighted the economy and the working class; housing and the homeless; and public safety.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2022
• Lula, 76, running on a campaign of nostalgia with appeals to the working class, has framed the contest as a test of the strength of Brazil’s young democracy.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2022
• Forgiving student loans is about helping the working class stay afloat.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024