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

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

His old friend Patti Smith, writing in The New Yorker, called him “our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted.”

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2015

People in motor cars will always give the workingman a lift to Dublin.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt