How to Use white-collar in a Sentence

white-collar

adjective

• Enter LinkedIn, the brag board of choice for the white-collar worker.
  — Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2024
• The case was a boon to white-collar lawyers and a shot across the bow of international sports.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
• Most of my cousins got white-collar jobs or joined the public sector.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
• These are people for whom a white-collar job at a call center is a reach.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
• At first glance, this seems like any other white-collar scheme.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 June 2024
• The only city that saw more young white-collar workers?
  — Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
• According to the chairman of one of the U.K.’s biggest chains, the trend has become something of a white-collar crime.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
• About half of those who broke into the Capitol were white-collar workers.
  — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
• But those threats were aimed at white-collar tech workers who were not unionized.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
• The white-collar types appear to enjoy this sandwich shop on the first floor of a commercial high-rise.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
• And Zoom and Microsoft Teams conferences and Slack chats still reign over the white-collar world.
  — Daniel Munoz, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
• For the first time since the pandemic began, more white-collar workers in the U.K. work in the office full-time than on a hybrid schedule.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• For such white-collar crimes, Measures could be looking at more than 15 years behind bars if found guilty.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025
• Those that did tended to go into what became white-collar jobs.
  — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 5 July 2025
• Dude can’t talk for more than five seconds without confessing to a white-collar crime.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
• Typically, in white-collar crimes, the bigger the financial loss, the longer the sentence.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
• These layoffs, many of which are for white-collar roles, have led to a job market squeeze, pushing quit rates to pre-pandemic lows.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
• The past year was a turning (and at times tipping) point in the white-collar workforce, which was rife with layoffs and return-to-office mandates.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2023
• And if the white-collar crime failed to impact a lot of victims and didn’t involve very large sums, the prison sentences are relatively short.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
• Blue horizons Younger folks are losing trust in white-collar careers.
  — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
• The offices that provide the white-collar jobs so many Indians aspire to were shuttered overnight.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Some employers may soon have to pad their white-collar workers’ checks with overtime pay.
  — Amber Burton, Fortune, 19 July 2023
• Another reason for why AI could affect white-collar jobs the most?
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2023
• Normally, this is a beat filled with white-collar crime, so this definitely has been outside of the norm.
  — Miranda Kennedy, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
• This is most noticeable in white-collar jobs that can be done remotely.
  — Sean Manning, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• His sentence ranks as one of the longest imposed on a white-collar defendant in recent years.
  — J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• On this very site, MetLife pioneered the communal white-collar workspace.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
• Chandler was the yuppie of the group, with a well-paying white-collar job his friends did not entirely understand.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• For most white-collar jobs, those are vestiges of the past, Zappacosta believes.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
• Generally, fast-casual diners are higher income and more likely to have white-collar jobs.
  — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025