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How to use the word collar in a Sentence?

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He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.

The Guardian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Being the poorest congressional district in the state, we can afford inflation, and we can afford gas prices the least of any other part of the state of Oregon, and particularly just about any other part of the West Coast. I mean, this is a very blue collar, working class district and people are not getting more for their money. They're getting significantly less.

Alek Skarlatos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

2009 was the last time we knew anything about P1, there must have been a fight. We found his collar, blood on a rock. And never saw him again. He was reasonably old.

Seth Riley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Dilapidated condition of Indian economy is such these days that first there are no Jobs and whatever little vacancy you see in newspaper is that for driver, fitter, welder, electricians, accounts assistants, teachers but nothing for white collar mainly for MBAs, B Tech or highly qualified people. No job advertisement is seen from Mutual Fund, Insurance, Banking or Big Industries. Governments jobs are almost never seen

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

I think he’s going to bring a toughness, a blue-collar mentality, just because Getty Images’s how he’s built. That’s how he’s raised. You have to be that way from Saginaw, i think it ’ll be a different toughness that they have n’t seen. And he’s going to command and require a different respect level that they have n’t really had. ... And I think that will bode well for that team.

Draymond Green

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Boy's hair may not extend below the eyebrows, below the tops of the ears or below a conventional standup shirt collar, and must not be more than one-inch difference in the length of the hair on the side to the length of the hair on top.

Desiree Bullock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Good jobs for blue-collar workers, those are hard to come by in this day and age.

Nick Gradisar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is the blue-collar, working-class American that we are looking for, i want to see heart. I want to see moms elected to Congress. I want to see your blue-collar workers, your electricians, your contractors, your commercial sandblasters.

Kat Cammack

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You know, people around the edges would always say things, right? They would try to be polite. But nobody really had to say that much. You just know, on your own, that when your shirt collar has gotten one inch bigger — well, you know.

Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The idea here is not just to provide some sort of a near-term stimulus that keeps people busy for months or quarters, it's to fundamentally transform key sectors within our economy that disproportionately employ blue-collar and service workers... in a way that incentivizes not just more jobs, but higher-quality jobs.

Jared Bernstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The President has long recognized that blue-collar workers, non-college-educated workers, workers in traditionally lower-paid sectors, such as laborers in manufacturing or providers of care to kids and older persons, in many ways those workers have for too long been forgotten by even Democrat policy makers, who basically told them,' Get a college education and you'll be fine,' which is not a viable option for a lot of people and seems pretty dismissive of their experience. I think The President's always bridled at an economics that leaves behind two-thirds of the workforce [ without college degrees ] and especially given that it's the two-thirds of the workforce that's been least pulled along by economic growth.

Jared Bernstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Now you don't want to be a weirdo and start measuring your loved one's neck build at night, the rule of thumb is always going to be a collar size of greater than 17 inches( 43 centimeters) for a male, and greater than 16 inches( 40.6 centimeters) for a female will put you at a higher risk for sleep apnea.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are officers who will wait until the last half an hour of their tour and they will come up with some bogus collar or some offense. That's what we're not identifying, we're not identifying those who are abusing the system for overtime.

Brooklyn Borough PresidentEric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don’t need a single dollar. I just need every single person that’s willing to go back outside the wire every single day to wear a blue-collar and just go into work every single day and feed their families. Those are the people that I need, follow me and we will bring the whole f***ing system down. I am honorable and you can ask any Marine who served with me for 17 years. I dare you to ask them all and find out what I’m made of. We’re just getting started.

Stuart Scheller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Inflation and the overall cost of living is going to bite the non-college working class a heck of a lot more than it is the white-collar upscale college grads, there's a lot of things working against Henry Olsen that Henry Olsen doesn't have much control over.

David Kochel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The app said the signal was weak, that’s when I twigged it was underground. Then the vet told me Alex’s right paw wound was caused by a bite and the collar must be inside the rat.

Andel Kindell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Today, President Trump committed to helping elect Ten House Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022, a Republican majority will listen to our fellow Americans and solve the challenges facing our nation. Democrats, on the other hand, have only put forward an agenda that divides us — such as impeaching a President who is now a private citizen and destroying blue-collar energy jobs. For the sake of our country, the radical Democrat agenda must be stopped.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At the stroke of a pen, he literally put thousands upon thousands of hardworking, blue collar union members out of work, these are people that were working on Monday—that were working on Tuesday—and then the president goes into the Oval Office and signs an executive order wiping out the Keystone Pipeline and they’re out of work.

Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

All of my local Chinese friends, theyre white-collar, theyre well off, and none of them will buy medicine made in China. Thats just the way it is.

Ray Yip

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We are increasingly seeing white-collar companies realize that the flexibility employees wanted for some time doesn’t come with any real drawbacks.

Max Gokhman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.

John Prine

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

It is the foremost and paw-most awards for dogs on the big screen... it has only got bigger and bigger, and when last year Quentin Tarantino sashayed into the room and took the collar with great pride and enthusiasm, then I thought that says that Palm Dog is on the map.

Toby Rose

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Once again, The Supreme Court has thrown out federal criminal convictions of public officials who, by their own admission, abused their power for corrupt and illegitimate purposes, the harder question is whether Congress will respond to rulings like this one by expanding the scope of these laws, or whether we're going to end up with a world in which criminal liability for such nefarious conduct depends upon the color of one's collar.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Biden's roots and history and commitment with those voters, with the blue-collar voters, will help him here. As long as he's not wounded coming out of Super Tuesday, then he could potentially get his bounce back and in some ways rehabilitate his campaign, there is an opportunity for Super Tuesday here. Whether he has the money or not to do that, that's the challenge. Right now, there is no media, no ground game being waged by them. The Bernie Sanders folks are everywhere ; The Bernie folks do have a ground game.

Jeff Rusnak

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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