working class

Example Sentences

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When there aren’t marriageable or even dateable men around, fewer women marry and have children, a dynamic that has been particularly pronounced in America’s working class.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2026

Le Pen has always declared herself to be "neither left nor right", and her appeal is strongest among the old working class.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2026

Pate said recent Democratic wins in regional and local elections had given her "hope that the little people -- the working class — maybe are being heard."

From Barron's • Jul. 4, 2026

“It doesn’t make him a working class hero.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Not that I, even in my more histrionic moments, imagine that I am a member of that oppressed working class.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich