workingman

Example Sentences

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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

Sting also coaxed out of retirement Jimmy Nail, a tall, rugged-faced actor and singer beloved in England for his long-running television role as a Geordie workingman; he will play Gideon’s father.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2013

I’m dying to go around with Mr. Hannon on the great float like a real workingman.

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