blue-collar worker
Example Sentences
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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
Now, at 80, he’s recently starred in “Working Man” as a blue-collar worker mourning the loss of his son and sidelined by a factory closing who refuses to give in.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2021
As the private space race opens up this new frontier for commerce, we need to imagine what life in space would look like for an ordinary blue-collar worker on a private mining or settlement mission.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 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
