How to Use working-class in a Sentence

working-class

1 of 2 adjective
  • Her father ran a working-class ski school.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Jones grew up in a working-class household.
    — Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The tone of the film was a love letter to the working-class roots of the game.
    — Don Riddell, CNN, 19 Mar. 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
  • His parents were working-class refugees from the East.
    — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • What used to be the bankers’ party is now a working-class party.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Its people were working-class — many at the harder end of it.
    — Lee Clayton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Eric did the job of a working-class mayor.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • These are often folks who came from working-class backgrounds.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
  • Things were different for this working-class man this time around.
    — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Trump appeals to working-class voters who feel like they have been left behind.
    — Vincent Trometter, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • And the job is to separate those working-class voters from the cronies.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But claims from both sides that the young socialist rode a wave of working-class anger are wide of the mark.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Back in the 1970s, strikes were part of the working-class culture.
    — Jane Holgate, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • There are some great people who are working night and day to protect working-class people.
    — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • But Marty, a working-class Jewish kid, won’t hear of it.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Critics say Democrats are elitist and look down on working-class people.
    — John Blake, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Its quiet streets have drawn a diverse mix of middle- and working-class families.
    — Christian Orozco, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
  • As a result, poor and working-class Blacks in Marvell were able to own their homes.
    — arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The church has a mostly Hispanic and working-class flock.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Bynum’s modesty may be a product of his working-class upbringing.
    — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • White, now fifty-six, grew up in working-class Massachusetts.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
  • Refuge arrived in the form of a group that provided theater training to working-class kids.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The working-class themes of the film resonated with working actors on the picket lines.
    — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • For those from working-class backgrounds, the options were limited.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • He was raised in a working-class Detroit household by his oldest sister.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • For many working-class families, the time and money required was a deal-breaker.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • 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

working class

2 of 2 noun
  • Many of them are working class.
    — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • There are shops and restaurants, a school and homes, both wealthy and more working class.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Students and the working class use the bus to get to school, work, or just around town.
    — Karen Girón, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The area feels working class and contiguous with the city.
    — Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Their parents were working class, people were maybe on the dole.
    — Kyle Rice, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022
  • As a working class area, its restaurants have always been top-notch.
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
  • Times are hard for the working class, who must contend with low pay and food shortages.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Is music just one more distraction to keep the working class in check?
    — Ed Masley, azcentral, 12 July 2018
  • Did the party go too far left and alienate working class voters?
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Is their music just one more distraction to keep the working class in check?
    — Ed Masley, azcentral, 6 May 2018
  • Joe Biden and Democrats are struggling with working class whites.
    — NBC News, 25 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Here, the working class lives next door to new-money immigrants.
    — Philip Wang, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But it had long been overlooked, or dismissed as the realm of broke students or the working class.
    — New York Times, 2 May 2022
  • If the Democrats want to call the working class back home, something must be on the table.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • My parents were working class people.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • These are your dad's beers, the old standbys, the unfussy comfort beers of the working class.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 9 June 2020
  • This is about working class voters, working class, working class.
    — ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • Why does the working class no longer support the party of working men and women?
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Does Varley see herself as working class?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Can Trump's 2nd act work for the working class while giving back to his super donors?
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The net effect will be a massive transfer of wealth from the poor and working classes to the wealthy.
    — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In this sense, his appeal to the working class is less direct than Rubio’s.
    — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Carried on the hips of their fly-girl party rhymes was the indomitable spirit of the working class.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The holiday’s founders sought to enact changes on behalf of the working class.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021

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