wage-earning
Example Sentences
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With the death of the wage-earning father, the family struggled in true 19th century Dickensian fashion.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024
Walker, who represents Monongalia County, added, “It affects people of color tremendously. It affects our neighbors in rural communities. It affects low-income wage-earning West Virginians, and it upsets me to my core.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022
“A lot of these Navajo men were in their prime wage-earning years. When they passed on, they were diagnosed with lung cancer or various types of lung ailments.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 26, 2019
For women, the economic situation was complicated by the war, with the departure of wage-earning men and the higher cost of living pushing many toward less comfortable lives.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
School life was, especially for the elder children, an intermittent one, and truth did not regulate the beginning of wage-earning of any of the children.
From The Leaven in a Great City by Betts, Lillian William
