Example sentences for: white-collar

How can you use “white-collar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Second, priorities were driven at the local level by the field offices, whose concerns centered on traditional crimes such as white-collar offenses and those pertaining to drugs and gangs.

  • An article scoffs at "stress": It's a bogus disease that white-collar workers use as an excuse to skip work.

  • In the business and finance news box of the Wall Street Journal , there's word (credited to yesterday's Detroit News ) that in a move to retain white-collar employees, Chrysler is offering 15,000 nonunion salaried workers a grant of $4,000 for family-related expenses like elder care and children's college tuition.

  • As a prosecutor who uses testimony compelled by subpoena to investigate white-collar crime, I was dismayed to read Akhil Reed Amar's proposal, in "Right and Huang," to alter the meaning of immunity to allow for the fruits of immunized testimony to be used against a criminal defendant.

  • Illiterate mothers, mothers with less than six years of education, mothers with manual rather than white-collar work, and mothers who had breastfed earlier infants expressed a desire to sustain breastfeeding longer than their counterparts did (univariate analyses; all p-values <0.


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