Working-class

"Working-class" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Tom grew up in a working-class family.

This is a working-class neighborhood.

This is a neighborhood of working-class people.

It's a novel about working-class people doing working-class things.

Layla grew up in a working-class area.

Tom comes from a working-class family.

Mary comes from a working-class family.

How did a taxi driver's son from working-class London make the unlikely journey to the top of the fashion world, and what made him end it all at the height of his powers?

They say that if you're working-class that you should vote left-wing. But what happens when every left-wing party is so corrupt that they stopped representing the average citizen a long time ago?

He grew up in a working-class neighborhood where everyone, at least once, tried cocaine.

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There is one obvious sense in which working-class politics has declined in the last twenty years or so: the proportion of working-class people involved at various levels of party politics has dropped.

Jean-Baptiste ordered herb soup, potatoes, and cheese along with two glasses of beer — a typical working-class lunch, he said to Aimee with a smile.

It was a very working-class crowd on the Kop, mainly dockers and the like.

But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school.

One of the areas in Hong Kong most profoundly impacted by the city’s third wave of coronavirus is Tsz Wan Shan. The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town. Tsz Wan Shan has been the epicentre of a recent cluster of Covid-19 cases.

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