workingman
Example Sentences
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Kuhn quotes the estimable Pete Hamill as observing back then that the workingman “feels trapped and, even worse, in a society that purports to be democratic, ignored.”
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2020
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
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
Historians still debate over whom, specifically, to credit with the idea of a holiday dedicated to the workingman.
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2015
People in motor cars will always give the workingman a lift to Dublin.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
