workingman

Example Sentences

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The free market revolutionary as an average Joe, chatting up the workingman.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

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

He was dfferent, a workingman who had never been late for work in the thirty years that he worked for the New York City Housing Authority, and he was a good, good man.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride