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
  • The bling is a bit more overt on Billions, to convey just how far Axelrod has come from his humble working-class roots.
    — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023
  • But while Prevost made his debut in Chicago, his parents and two older brothers were already living just south of the sprawling city in a working-class suburb called Dolton.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 May 2025

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
  • If the Democrats want to call the working class back home, something must be on the table.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Where has all the money gone, if not to the American middle and working class?
    — John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
  • And Joe Biden clearly is on the side of working class America.
    — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The student body is one of the most diverse of any college in the area, and unique as well for being largely working class.
    — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2022
  • In this sense, his appeal to the working class is less direct than Rubio’s.
    — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Among the visibly working class, the tabloids were more popular.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • Many of them are set among and told from the perspectives of the French working classes, focusing on blue-collar labor rather than office work.
    — Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025

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