How to Use workingman in a Sentence

workingman

noun

• The realm of workingman’s rock ’n’ roll has seemed to suit Eddie Money.
  — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2018
• With a real-world price of about $375, this—like all Mossberg offerings—is a gun the workingman can afford.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 22 Jan. 2019
• After the day’s work was done, Deford fell into the habit of going along with the newspaper’s typesetting and printing men to a workingman’s bar down by the docks.
  — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 30 May 2017
• In truth, the hot dog is the American id, our good and our bad, both humble street meat (the workingman's meal) and humility's opposite.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 4 July 2016
• Eldridge looks like a workingman in a Disfarmer portrait.
  — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2017
• As interesting as all these craft brews can be, beer is supposed to be a workingman’s libation.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
• Then, the two-story Gothic Revival-style home measured just 1,100 square feet and was considered a workingman’s cottage.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2018
• In 1909, Fox introduced a low-priced, workingman’s double called the Sterlingworth.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Oct. 2020
• In the first edition, he is shown bearded, casually dressed in an unbuttoned workingman’s shirt, one hand in his pocket, the other on his hip, wearing a black slouch hat.
  — Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2019
• Hagler was the workingman's fighter from Brockton, Massachusetts, with a chip on his shoulder.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
• There is the United States Government; and then there are a host of other governments in fact if not in name, the office forces of the corporations that govern production and the office forces of the trade unions that govern the workingman.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• Not just any men, but characters — workingmen, old men, homeless men, policemen and firemen.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 14 May 2017
• Workwear is having an undeniable moment in men’s fashion right now, led—rightfully—by one of the most OG workingman brands out there: Dickies.
  — Samuel Hine, GQ, 30 May 2018
• The gradual evolution from workingman’s pub to a coed tavern.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• In Suburbicon, Matt Damon plays a workingman whose life seems to drastically change after a home invasion goes terribly wrong.
  — Ariston Anderson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2017
• The first local brewery that discounts its product occasionally, or develops a decent workingman’s lager for, say, $6.99 a six, will get my undying loyalty and support.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Future tripping Despite the accolades, Hazan retains a sensible, workingman’s attitude about his craft — and about his future.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• An upright fluorescent tube leaning against a wall, silently glowing between two work-boots of cast concrete on the floor and suddenly phallic, coaxes out the distinctly masculine, workingman ethos of Minimalism’s first generation.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 20 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024