blue-collar worker

Example Sentences

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O’Connor was an unknown when Lear tapped him to play an unapologetic blue-collar worker from New York’s borough of Queens whose ignorance and intolerance was his own comic foil.

From Fox News • Aug. 7, 2021

Although he, too, started as a blue-collar worker, an electrician for railroads, Mr. Davis climbed the ranks of management.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2021

I'm effectively a blue-collar worker in the dream factory.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2021

Now, at 80, he’s recently starred in “Working Man” as a blue-collar worker mourning the loss of his son and sidelined by a factory closing who refuses to give in.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2021

He even called himself a blue-collar worker, of sorts, during a campaign stop in western Pennsylvania.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2018