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

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

I want to wave my pound note at the world so they’ll say,There he goes, Frankie McCourt the workingman, with a pound in his pocket.

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