blue-collar worker
Example Sentences
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This is a concern for Ken Feng, a 50-year-old blue-collar worker in Shenzhen, who worries that his parents could be among the first to succumb.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
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
I'm effectively a blue-collar worker in the dream factory.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2021
Q. Sometimes my girlfriend talks like we’re from different generations: My girlfriend of nine months is a blue-collar worker through and through, and I think her co-workers have really rubbed their personality on her.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2019
Unlike other fictional mobsters, Tony was not interested in going legit; his despair grew from the nagging realization that, like the blue-collar worker, the neighborhood mobster was becoming obsolete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
