How to Use blue-collar in a Sentence

blue-collar

adjective
  • The demise of a blue-collar beer like Schlitz marks the end of an era.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 20 May 2026
  • That doesn’t mean boxing has stopped being a blue-collar sport.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 28 Dec. 2025
  • And that's just playing hard-nosed, blue-collar, grind-it-out baseball.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
  • In the growth of blue-collar work, Biden has much to celebrate.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
  • All of us rely on workers in both white- and blue-collar roles every day.
    — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Artisan jobs and blue-collar work may be a buoy from the headwinds.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • His is a blue-collar family, York said.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
  • The pair of blue-collar strikes come as a group of Bay State lawyers hold a strike of their own.
    — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
  • Her husband works a blue-collar job and is gone for around 50-60 hours a week.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Mike is a career blue-collar government worker who doesn’t want his job to end.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Here are the 10 highest-paying blue-collar jobs.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • There is also a growing rhetoric that exhorts the virtues of blue-collar labor.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The show featured themes of patriotism and faith with a rugged blue-collar vibe.
    — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The good news for blue-collar workers is some are hoping a rebound could be around the corner.
    — Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • By next year, this part of San Francisco’s blue-collar past will be gone.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • And yet as his first calendar year in office winds down, that blue-collar jobs boom has yet to arrive.
    — Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • In this blue-collar town, which is still mourning the loss of its steel industry, those aren’t numbers to sniff at.
    — Andrew Dickson, Bloomberg, 2 May 2026
  • Children from blue-collar warrens straddling the road strutted about.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
  • There is a dire shortage of blue-collar workers in the United States.
    — Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Same-day or next-day access matters especially for gig and blue-collar work.
    — Raj Ananthanpillai, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • There’s more of a blue-collar feel in the building because ticket prices on secondary markets are so cheap.
    — Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Is that simply because Beebo is something of a blue-collar folk hero?
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
  • It’s made up of blue-collar people that work in camera, in makeup, in wardrobe and in construction.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
  • This data focuses on a more blue-collar segment of the workforce.
    — Louis Jacbson, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Many major blue-collar employers are making such bets.
    — Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Boarhog’s clientele skews blue-collar, enhancing its salt-of-the-earth appeal.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 6 June 2023
  • 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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