How to Use workingman in a Sentence

workingman

noun

• Blass owned a workingman’s hands, thick with scuffed, ashy knuckles.
  — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• At the time, denim was a workingman’s textile that women rarely wore.
  — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
• The realm of workingman’s rock ’n’ roll has seemed to suit Eddie Money.
  — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2018
• As for some of the others, there is only a slight difference between their income and the wages of a workingman.
  — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
• As interesting as all these craft brews can be, beer is supposed to be a workingman’s libation.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
• After all, one thing workingmen, women, and almost all of the enslaved had in common, on the commons, was the fact that none of them could vote.
  — Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• Not just any men, but characters — workingmen, old men, homeless men, policemen and firemen.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 14 May 2017
• The gradual evolution from workingman’s pub to a coed tavern.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• With a real-world price of about $375, this—like all Mossberg offerings—is a gun the workingman can afford.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 22 Jan. 2019
• The people who are sitting in front of Hitler have, for the most part, sunk below the standard of living of a German workingman with a job.
  — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
• In truth, the hot dog is the American id, our good and our bad, both humble street meat (the workingman's meal) and humility's opposite.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 4 July 2016
• In the first edition, he is shown bearded, casually dressed in an unbuttoned workingman’s shirt, one hand in his pocket, the other on his hip, wearing a black slouch hat.
  — Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2019
• Hagler was the workingman's fighter from Brockton, Massachusetts, with a chip on his shoulder.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
• Braque’s housepainter past has long been part of the Cubist mythos, often leveraged into a kind of workingman street cred, but here it is granted a particular and critical role.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• Those tweets helped cement Musk's reputation as a brash outsider, a workingman's billionaire, Grygiel said.
  — David Klepper, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
• What was once a workingman’s district is now River North, a polished landscape of galleries, luxury apartments and expense-account dining.
  — David Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
• Then, the two-story Gothic Revival-style home measured just 1,100 square feet and was considered a workingman’s cottage.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2018
• In Suburbicon, Matt Damon plays a workingman whose life seems to drastically change after a home invasion goes terribly wrong.
  — Ariston Anderson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2017
• For the average farmer, the global financial crisis and the reaction to it crystalized the idea that an elite financial cabal was putting the interests of bankers above the interests of the workingman.
  — David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
• Future tripping Despite the accolades, Hazan retains a sensible, workingman’s attitude about his craft — and about his future.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
  — Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
• There is the United States Government; and then there are a host of other governments in fact if not in name, the office forces of the corporations that govern production and the office forces of the trade unions that govern the workingman.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• An upright fluorescent tube leaning against a wall, silently glowing between two work-boots of cast concrete on the floor and suddenly phallic, coaxes out the distinctly masculine, workingman ethos of Minimalism’s first generation.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 20 Mar. 2020