How to Use alpha male in a Sentence

alpha male

noun
  • The same can be said about the name Chad, which has been used to describe an alpha male.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 31 May 2024
  • The alpha male fox is very used to humans and has begged me for food before.
    John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Look Who’s Back, stars as Uri, the alpha male of a kibbutz and one of the pioneers of the state of Israel.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 July 2024
  • A lot of the roles I’m known for feel very period and often feel quite alpha male.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2023
  • That said, the star is no ordinary Hollywood alpha male.
    Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Not trying to please society, or be strong, or an alpha male, or whatever.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
  • That led to the great alpha male purge following the Super Bowl win in February 2013, when all of those players either signed with other teams or, in the case of Lewis, retired.
    Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
  • One adoption is featured in the 2012, Disneynature movie Chimpanzee, in which the alpha male took an orphan under his wing.
    Time, 17 June 2023
  • In the next scene, Vanilla jumps up and down and hugs another chimpanzee, identified as alpha male chimpanzee Dwight by Save the Chimps, before looking up at the sky with wide eyes.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023
  • Image Image Stella cultivated an image of a man who was always ahead of the pack, an alpha male who could outrun you.
    Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • Due to pathetically low t-levels, these men seek out other ways to assert their alpha male role.
    Randy Dotinga, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • The role models offered up in today’s crop of alpha male podcasters and crypto grifters provide little in the face of the world’s dizzying buffet of hostilities.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The alpha male of the Prime Canyon pack was one of the first captive foster pups released in 2016 and survived to parent litters officials have repeatedly fostered into.
    Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024
  • Bucky is the most compelling, largely because of the big Adam Driver energy Turner is giving as the kind of swaggering alpha male America doesn’t make as much these days.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2024
  • After all, not all men are alpha male and want to embrace the typical male leadership style that is present in numerous corporations and endorsed by some of the world leaders.
    Lidija Globokar, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Hammer: The oldest male born of these three female hippos wanted to be the alpha male and basically killed his own father and established a new hippo pod, and that’s the dynamic that happens.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
  • When a captive mother whelps, or gives birth on her own, managers match her pups with a wild den using GPS coordinates from radio collars placed on packs’ breeding alpha male and female.
    Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024
  • Yet the actor cites another alpha male as Reacher’s true predecessor: Harrison Ford.
    William Earl, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • As a consequence of harmful myths and glorifying the ‘alpha male’ image, men struggle to open up and form relationships based on emotional connections, especially between each other.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
  • Larsa, effectively running the Housewives faction of the cast (if only as a result of her relative volume), remains fixated on her theory that an alpha male traitor must be responsible for murdering all these alpha male faithfuls.
    Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024

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