workingman

Example Sentences

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They want the moribund broadsheet to trounce the Daily Mail and become the voice of the British workingman.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

Bruno Sammartino was pro wrestling’s workingman champion and longtime box-office draw.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2018

To passers-by, he looked like any other workingman enjoying his lunch.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2017

It’s what a workingman might eat standing up while his daintier compatriots nibble on nigiri at a proper sushi bar; sushi that occasionally improves in a 7-Eleven refrigerator case.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2017

I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield