How to Use working-class in a Sentence

working-class

1 of 2 adjective

• The tone of the film was a love letter to the working-class roots of the game.
  — Don Riddell, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
• Back in the 1970s, strikes were part of the working-class culture.
  — Jane Holgate, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• Did the working-class folks of Luzerne County change, Bruce?
  — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 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
• One of 10 children, Jack was a true working-class hero.
  — Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
• As a result, poor and working-class Blacks in Marvell were able to own their homes.
  — arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2025
• Now, both Walz and Vance are wielding their working-class bona fides against each other and against the top of the ticket.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
• Now is the time to do what’s right for working-class and outer-borough New Yorkers.
  — Selvena Brooks-Powers, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Back in 1870, this neighborhood had been at the heart of the Black working-class community of New Haven.
  — Susanna Ashton, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
• That's not someone that stands for working-class people.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Those once-blue Rust Belt states are home to legions of older white working-class voters.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
• The sweeping biopic charts the rise of the pop star, from his days as a cheeky 8-year-old in a working-class U.K. town to his battles with the usual pitfalls of fame and money.
  — Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
• The truth is that most working-class New Yorkers rely on buses and subways.
  — Midori Valdivia, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
• Her Crown Point would be on the Eastside, across the river from Gotham, and be a vibrant, tight-knit, working-class neighborhood.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
• Trump appeals to working-class voters who feel like they have been left behind.
  — Vincent Trometter, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The violence highlighted how poor and working-class South Africans felt left behind by progress made since the end of apartheid.
  — Lynsey Chutel Joao Silva, New York Times, 28 May 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
• By virtue of her working-class background, Margot isn't as beholden to Slowik's genius as the rest of the diners.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2025
• Critics say Democrats are elitist and look down on working-class people.
  — John Blake, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024
• There are some great people who are working night and day to protect working-class people.
  — CBS News, 19 Feb. 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
• For Trump, that is mostly older voters and white working-class voters, as well as men.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
• A little further south is a working-class enclave that is home to the highest concentration of sake breweries in Japan.
  — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2025
• What used to be the bankers’ party is now a working-class party.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026

working class

2 of 2 noun

• 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
• 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 fact of the matter is, our working class doesn’t look like the working class from 1955.
  — Justine Harman, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2018
• If the Democrats want to call the working class back home, something must be on the table.
  — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
• Ending the war was at the top of the agenda for large swaths of the Russian army and working class.
  — David Sessions, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
• Helping the working class with child care--I'm for that.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2021
• 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
• These are your dad's beers, the old standbys, the unfussy comfort beers of the working class.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 9 June 2020
• 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
• Joe Biden and Democrats are struggling with working class whites.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Times are hard for the working class, who must contend with low pay and food shortages.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
• With the working class in power, peace would be assured.
  — 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
• 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
• Carried on the hips of their fly-girl party rhymes was the indomitable spirit of the working class.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 24 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The working class is the heart of the Republican Party.
  — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 10 Aug. 2020
• The poll showed that support for the yellow vests remains strong among the working class and in rural France.
  — Nick Kostov, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• Biden has pledged to raise taxes on wealthy people and not the middle class and working class.
  — Hope Yen, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• His home is in a working class neighborhood in the city, cut into the South Hills of Pittsburgh.
  — Kim Strong, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2020
• This film was a labor of love, exploring the imagination of the working class through the transporting power of music.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025
• But framing the city’s problems purely in terms of race and poverty obscured the broader swath of issues facing the city’s working class.
  — Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026