workingman

Example Sentences

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For all his workingman credibility, running as a Conservative can still be a bruising experience.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2019

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

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