Sentence examples for the term works from inspiring English sources

The term works, in part, because of its dissonance.

The term works as a noun ("chips" or "chipo"), verb ("to chip") adjective ("chipsed") or past participle ("chipoed").

Outlawing the term "working class" has clearly done very little to counteract such obvious inequality.

You use the term working class; who exactly are you referring to?

When I was growing up, in the 1980s and 90s in Solihull, no one ever used the term "working class".

How do we make sure the term "work pays" forms an effective policy, rather than a slogan?

The word is derived from the Greek word ergon, meaning work, but the term work itself acquired a technical meaning with the advent of Newtonian mechanics.

The term "working families," which is increasingly popular with Democrats, was used by Vice President Al Gore as far back as 1988.

"He went to work on a bicycle," Jesse says of his father's financial troubles, the term "work" hanging there as if to imply that Dee Snider was working a cash register at Home Depot to settle his bills.

The term working class "used to be a badge of pride, but not any more for most people who still call themselves working class", said Deborah Mattinson, founder of BritainThinks.

It seems there's one set of circumstances in which the media-political complex now feels safe to use the term "working class", and that's when it uses the prefix "white".