working classes
Example Sentences
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May Day, which celebrates workers and the working classes, sees a major police deployment in Turkey every year, with a large area in the heart of Istanbul around Taksim Square sealed off.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Of these culturally Muslim, rural working classes often credited with wanting a theocracy, my mother says “they just wanted someone to give them their rights. The only thing that united them was basic human needs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
These struggles are compounded by a growing divide between Hollywood’s creative and working classes, a rift widened by productions moving overseas in pursuit of tax incentives and lower labor costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024
He saw how the epidemic disproportionately impacted the poor and working classes, while those in the upper echelons of society, including his family, remained relatively unscathed.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024
He saw things as the working classes saw them, saw them with all their grey unloveliness, their numbing monotony.
From The Everlasting Arms by Joseph Hocking
