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:

  • Artists still scorn it as a vulgar pastiche, and the working-class residents of the area resented its being erected as a symbol of penitence for the insurrection of the 1871 Commune — they didn’t feel penitent in the least.

  • While the bourgeoisie’s red-brick or stone houses are clearly inspired by Georgian and Victorian London and grander residences by the country houses and châteaux of continental Europe, the working-class row houses with outside iron staircases leading to upper floors (thus saving space inside) are a more characteristic Montréal feature.

  • Director Mike Leigh's latest film about working-class Brits "trapped in the hopelessness of modern life" (Richard Schickel, Time ) is rated a notch below his acclaimed Naked and Secrets & Lies . The premise--ex-college roommates spend a weekend together for the first time in six years--is overly "modest" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ): "[N]othing much happens, dramatically speaking," says Schickel.

  • , Renaissance Weekend) with no feel for the grimy working-class soul of the Democratic Party.

  • Michael ( Roger & Me ) Moore recycles a riff from his recent book tour: Instead of reading The Nation and joining food co-ops, leftists should connect with working-class Americans by watching sports and joining bowling leagues.


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