How to Use working-class in a Sentence

working-class

1 of 2 adjective

• Her father ran a working-class ski school.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
• Jones grew up in a working-class household.
  — Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
• The tone of the film was a love letter to the working-class roots of the game.
  — Don Riddell, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
• Most working-class jobs require you to clock in, do what you’re told, and clock out.
  — John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
• His parents were working-class refugees from the East.
  — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
• What used to be the bankers’ party is now a working-class party.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
• Its people were working-class — many at the harder end of it.
  — Lee Clayton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
• Eric did the job of a working-class mayor.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
• These are often folks who came from working-class backgrounds.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
• Things were different for this working-class man this time around.
  — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
• Trump appeals to working-class voters who feel like they have been left behind.
  — Vincent Trometter, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
• And the job is to separate those working-class voters from the cronies.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
• But claims from both sides that the young socialist rode a wave of working-class anger are wide of the mark.
  — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
• Back in the 1970s, strikes were part of the working-class culture.
  — Jane Holgate, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• There are some great people who are working night and day to protect working-class people.
  — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
• This near-absence of people from working-class jobs in the halls of power matters.
  — Nicholas Carnes, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026
• But Marty, a working-class Jewish kid, won’t hear of it.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2025
• Critics say Democrats are elitist and look down on working-class people.
  — John Blake, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024
• Its quiet streets have drawn a diverse mix of middle- and working-class families.
  — Christian Orozco, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
• As a result, poor and working-class Blacks in Marvell were able to own their homes.
  — arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2025
• The church has a mostly Hispanic and working-class flock.
  — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
• Bynum’s modesty may be a product of his working-class upbringing.
  — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• 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
• White, now fifty-six, grew up in working-class Massachusetts.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
• Refuge arrived in the form of a group that provided theater training to working-class kids.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026
• The working-class themes of the film resonated with working actors on the picket lines.
  — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• For those from working-class backgrounds, the options were limited.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
• He was raised in a working-class Detroit household by his oldest sister.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• Both of them worked their way from working-class realities into the upper class.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
• 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

working class

2 of 2 noun

• Many of them are working class.
  — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
• The good news was that the poor were gaining on the working class.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 July 2020
• But the flip side of that is the working class is getting shut out.
  — Laura Finaldi, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Mar. 2022
• There are shops and restaurants, a school and homes, both wealthy and more working class.
  — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
• Students and the working class use the bus to get to school, work, or just around town.
  — Karen Girón, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• The area feels working class and contiguous with the city.
  — Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 4 Dec. 2025
• Their parents were working class, people were maybe on the dole.
  — Kyle Rice, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022
• As a working class area, its restaurants have always been top-notch.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
• Times are hard for the working class, who must contend with low pay and food shortages.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
• Is music just one more distraction to keep the working class in check?
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 12 July 2018
• Did the party go too far left and alienate working class voters?
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2026
• Is their music just one more distraction to keep the working class in check?
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 6 May 2018
• Joe Biden and Democrats are struggling with working class whites.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020
• Biden has pledged to raise taxes on wealthy people and not the middle class and working class.
  — Hope Yen, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• Early gloves could be knitted at home (the poor or working class) or sewn from cloth or leather (the rich).
  — Jennifer Barger, National Geographic, 7 July 2020
• Here, the working class lives next door to new-money immigrants.
  — Philip Wang, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
• But it had long been overlooked, or dismissed as the realm of broke students or the working class.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2022
• If the Democrats want to call the working class back home, something must be on the table.
  — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
• My parents were working class people.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
• These are your dad's beers, the old standbys, the unfussy comfort beers of the working class.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 9 June 2020
• This is about working class voters, working class, working class.
  — ABC News, 28 June 2026
• Why does the working class no longer support the party of working men and women?
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
• Biden, in other words, has a chance to woo back working class voters of all races to the Democrats.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
• Does Varley see herself as working class?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
• Capitalism was the sin that had caused the war; only the working class was free from crime.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• Can Trump's 2nd act work for the working class while giving back to his super donors?
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 18 Feb. 2025
• The net effect will be a massive transfer of wealth from the poor and working classes to the wealthy.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
• In this sense, his appeal to the working class is less direct than Rubio’s.
  — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2021
• 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 holiday’s founders sought to enact changes on behalf of the working class.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021