blue-collar worker
Example Sentences
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In L.A., the look of the blue-collar worker is a strange fixation for those who don’t make things with their hands.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
O’Connor was an unknown when Lear tapped him to play an unapologetic blue-collar worker from New York’s borough of Queens whose ignorance and intolerance was his own comic foil.
From Fox News • Aug. 7, 2021
I'm effectively a blue-collar worker in the dream factory.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2021
Q. Sometimes my girlfriend talks like we’re from different generations: My girlfriend of nine months is a blue-collar worker through and through, and I think her co-workers have really rubbed their personality on her.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2019
The going rate was steep: $35 for an adult, several days’ wages for a blue-collar worker in this city.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2017
