workingman

Example Sentences

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If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.”

From Los Angeles Times

While running for the Mississippi governorship in 1975, Charles Finch — better known to his constituents as Cliff — endeavored to establish himself as “the workingman’s candidate.”

From Salon

A 130-year-old workingmen's club in a former mining village may be forced to close due to the cost of living crisis.

From BBC

The free market revolutionary as an average Joe, chatting up the workingman.

From New York Times

Those tweets helped cement Musk’s reputation as a brash outsider, a workingman’s billionaire, Grygiel said.

From Seattle Times