Example sentences for: working-class

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

  • But Gore surprised the paper's staff of working-class scribblers by staying there for five years.

  • Dispatched to the south of Italy by a magnate named Greenleaf seeking the return of his wastrel son Dickie (Jude Law), the working-class Ripley has to pretend he's an old Princeton classmate.

  • They attribute his enduring popularity to his complex persona, which coupled upper-class urbanity with working-class gruffness and machismo with tenderness.

  • Americans imagine the striving, suffering Irishwomen and the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, working-class Irishmen to be the sort of people who founded, and now form the backbone of, our own country.

  • This "bittersweet" British "working-class comedy" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ) about out-of-work, out-of-shape steelworkers turned male strippers earns praise for its politics and humor.


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