Sample Sentences forblue-collar (auto-selected)
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Most of our neighbors in Fremont were bus drivers, policemen, gas station attendants, and unwed mothers collecting welfare, exactly the sort of blue-collar people who would soon suffocate under the pillow Reganomics pressed to their faces.† (source)
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Years of decline in the blue-collar economy manifested themselves in the material prospects of Middletown's residents.† (source)
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His father, Larry, had grown up there, the second of six children in a blue-collar Baptist family that went to church on Wednesday night and twice on Sunday.† (source)
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The school separated these two groups by levels of education: The professional-class kids were provided with college-preparatory classes; the blue-collar students were pushed into "industrial arts."† (source)
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That was why I was with a blue-collar agency instead of a white-collar agency.† (source)
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On a blue-collar pastor's salary, what little reserve we had evaporated within weeks.† (source)
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Later in the day, handsome young men in blue-collar clothes would ring the bell.† (source)
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She was that misplaced woman who attempted to maintain aristocracy in a primarily blue-collar town.† (source)
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Around me was a community of blue-collar men and women who were satisfied with what I considered to be modest goals.† (source)
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Oswald has already put in a hard day of blue-collar labor, and the smell of his body odor wafts through the car.† (source)
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They were suspicious of power and pretense, just like my blue-collar parents had always been, and they delighted in cutting phonies down to size.† (source)
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In the Union army the disparity between comparable groups—professionals and high white-collar occupations on one hand and low white-collar and blue-collar workers on the other—was much less, only about 25 percent.† (source)
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There were relatively few full-fledged bars in that part of Flatbush (a puzzlement to me until Nathan pointed out that serious tippling does not rank high among Jewish pastimes), but this bar of ours did do a moderately brisk business, numbering among its predominately blue-collar clientele Irish doormen, Scandinavian cabdrivers, German building superintendents and WASPs of indeterminate status like myself who had somehow strayed into the faubourg.† (source)
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I was a child of privilege, he a sweet blue-collar man.† (source)
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The town was located on the banks of the South River, about thirty-five miles northwest of Wilmington and the coast, and at first glance, it seemed no different from the thousands of self-sufficient, blue-collar communities long on pride and history that dotted the South.† (source)
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From the beginning, the paradisiacal image of California lured the hopeful to the golden West, from the pioneer settlers who endured the horrors of the wagon trail to Chinese workers (once called coolies) and Irish laborers during the railroad building of the 1860s, to the Oklahoma dust-bowl refugees immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, to blue-collar workers pouring into the aerospace and defense industries of World War II and the Cold War, to blacks escaping the segregationist South, to Mexicans willing to pick the crops of agribusiness, to youths yearning for the lives glimpsed in movies with Natalie Wood and James Dean.† (source)
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