How to Use blue-collar in a Sentence
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The South isn’t the only place in the country that has small towns and blue-collar people.
—Michael Rietmulder, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
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In the growth of blue-collar work, Biden has much to celebrate.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
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That comes from a blue-collar family that he was raised in.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2024
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There is a dire shortage of blue-collar workers in the United States.
—Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
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And that's just playing hard-nosed, blue-collar, grind-it-out baseball.
—Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
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Both Harris and Trump are courting blue-collar workers in the state.
—Hadriana Lowenkron, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
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This is good news for frontline and blue-collar workers.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 May 2023
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All of us rely on workers in both white- and blue-collar roles every day.
—Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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The Boarhog’s clientele skews blue-collar, enhancing its salt-of-the-earth appeal.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 6 June 2023
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But the defining chapter of Weil’s life on the barricades was her stint as a blue-collar worker.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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And that would be bad news for the workers who rely on it, as well as the public officials who want to keep blue-collar jobs in the city.
—Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
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Gunslinger Spideys, dinosaur Spideys, blue-collar Spideys, proud-dad Spideys, and a few who are more spider than man pass through the frame.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
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These were blue-collar people, people looked down on them.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2024
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On the whole, Trump’s gains in Wisconsin’s mid-sized, blue-collar cities were modest and uneven.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
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The storm tore up the roof, causing water damage across Samari’s 635 units, home to retirees and blue-collar workers.
—Jean Eaglesham, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
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Starmer comes from a blue-collar background but would also be the first prime minister since the 1950s to already have a knighthood.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 July 2024
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So the jobs that will be the most challenged will be those that are routine and repetitive—and that includes both blue-collar and white-collar work.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
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My past films tended to focus more on blue-collar workers.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
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Much like Young’s, LeBlanc’s lyrics on Coyote are blue-collar poetry that take flight on the wings of rock, country, and folk music.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
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Some migrants find jobs in the informal economy or are paid cash to do blue-collar work.
—Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
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Why are the Heat always going for blue-collar players, over guys like Omer that have a higher ceiling?
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
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Six years into his blue-collar gig, dominoes began to fall.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
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In a blue-collar town where Spanish and English seamlessly mix, guns have long been a constant.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
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From pulling carts, guarding homes and protecting homes, they are described as dog-kind punch-the-clock, blue-collar workers.
—Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2025
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Turns out, these blue-collar classics are still widely available, still priced right, and still solid deer guns.
—Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024
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Made up not of James Bond types but rather basic, blue-collar folks like construction workers, plumbers, etc. — gritty teams who get down to the nuts and bolts.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2024
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Vladimir Rumyantsev was a blue-collar worker in Vologda.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Apr. 2023
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This data focuses on a more blue-collar segment of the workforce.
—Louis Jacbson, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Nov. 2024
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Support within the poll also cut across all income categories too and across white- and blue-collar workers.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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The intrigue: In a recent Aurora town hall, Crow outlined his vision for the party's future — and suggested the key is to appeal to voters who supported Trump or sat out the 2024 election, including blue-collar workers.
—John Frank, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
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