blue-collar worker
Example Sentences
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Making community theater, one often has to beg, borrow and steal to cast a show, so it’s not out of the question that Rita might cajole a blue-collar worker like Dan into a rehearsal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2024
So, he just seemed to be an everyman, a blue-collar worker in Memphis who was raising his child and was close to his family and apparently stopped at the same Starbucks for coffee every morning.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2023
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
