How to Use blue-collar in a Sentence

blue-collar

adjective
  • And for the legions of blue-collar stiffs just like him.
    Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • The pair of blue-collar strikes come as a group of Bay State lawyers hold a strike of their own.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
  • The South isn’t the only place in the country that has small towns and blue-collar people.
    Michael Rietmulder, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
  • In the growth of blue-collar work, Biden has much to celebrate.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The hot dogs are always spinning, and the vibe is pure blue-collar: no flair, just foil.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2025
  • That comes from a blue-collar family that he was raised in.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2024
  • There is a dire shortage of blue-collar workers in the United States.
    Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
  • And that's just playing hard-nosed, blue-collar, grind-it-out baseball.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
  • Both Harris and Trump are courting blue-collar workers in the state.
    Hadriana Lowenkron, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • This is good news for frontline and blue-collar workers.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • All of us rely on workers in both white- and blue-collar roles every day.
    Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The Boarhog’s clientele skews blue-collar, enhancing its salt-of-the-earth appeal.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 6 June 2023
  • But the defining chapter of Weil’s life on the barricades was her stint as a blue-collar worker.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • And that would be bad news for the workers who rely on it, as well as the public officials who want to keep blue-collar jobs in the city.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Gunslinger Spideys, dinosaur Spideys, blue-collar Spideys, proud-dad Spideys, and a few who are more spider than man pass through the frame.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
  • These were blue-collar people, people looked down on them.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2024
  • On the whole, Trump’s gains in Wisconsin’s mid-sized, blue-collar cities were modest and uneven.
    Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The show lives in these blue-collar pockets of ‘flyover America,’ but doesn’t make a big deal about it or pat itself on the back.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
  • The storm tore up the roof, causing water damage across Samari’s 635 units, home to retirees and blue-collar workers.
    Jean Eaglesham, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
  • There’s more of a blue-collar feel in the building because ticket prices on secondary markets are so cheap.
    Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Starmer comes from a blue-collar background but would also be the first prime minister since the 1950s to already have a knighthood.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 July 2024
  • So the jobs that will be the most challenged will be those that are routine and repetitive—and that includes both blue-collar and white-collar work.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
  • My past films tended to focus more on blue-collar workers.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Much like Young’s, LeBlanc’s lyrics on Coyote are blue-collar poetry that take flight on the wings of rock, country, and folk music.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Some migrants find jobs in the informal economy or are paid cash to do blue-collar work.
    Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Why are the Heat always going for blue-collar players, over guys like Omer that have a higher ceiling?
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • That agreement boosts the city's blue-collar workers' pay by 14% over four years, Parker said in a social media post.
    Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • Six years into his blue-collar gig, dominoes began to fall.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Her husband works a blue-collar job and is gone for around 50-60 hours a week.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But they are cut of the same cloth, born in blue-collar Pennsylvania towns where their fathers starred as high school coaches.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025

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