How to Use front man in a Sentence

front man

noun

• Kevin Cronin joined the band, left and returned in 1976 to be the group’s front man.
  — Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
• For the front man of the 1975, fame is its own kind of performance.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
• The 53-year-old Rossdale is the front man and guitarist for the rock band Bush.
  — Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2019
• The 2018 film chronicles the rise of the band Queen and its iconic front man.
  — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
• In 1994, Fred Durst was the front man of the rap-metal band Limp Bizkit.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2020
• Baker signed on as front man for a bunch of whiny cheaters.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2020
• The Radiohead front man postponed the U.S. leg of his tour.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2021
• White, who made his name as front man for the White Stripes, launched Third Man to re-release the group's records on vinyl.
  — CBS News, 4 Sep. 2017
• Matthew is the front man, taking care of customers, while his father stays in the kitchen and cooks.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
• The daughter of the Tears for Fears front man Curt Smith—also a client—had designed them.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
• Head coach Kyle Shanahan is the quiet front man for the group that is 7-0 and has a head of steam on the road to the Super Bowl.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• Wavves front man Nathan Williams blew up in the indie rock world in his very early 20s.
  — Miles Raymer, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2015
• But right now, Kelly is the front man, the guy everybody knows.
  — Eric Hansen, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2021
• These days, the Indian is a front man for an eye clinic now.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• My mom was the chef, dishwasher and prep cook, and my dad was the front man, the face, the server and everything else.
  — Christian Reynoso, SFChronicle.com, 28 Feb. 2020
• The Cure front man sat in the front row, surrounded by family and friends.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2020
• Their front man, Jeff Berding, might as well change his first name to Santa and ditch the navy blue suit for a red one.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Cobain, the front man for Seattle grunge band Nirvana, married Love in 1992.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2020
• Raiders’ owner Mark Davis needs Gruden as a front man when the team hits Vegas.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• The front man roars across the stage like a Tasmanian devil.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2024
• The set started off slow, with both a soft vocal mix that buried Wilson’s lyrics at the start, and what seemed like a shy front man.
  — Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022
• As a boy, their front man and leader had dreamed of baseball stardom rather than rock ’n’ roll fame.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Nathan Ake was also on target that day, but his task at the weekend will be to stop West Ham's in form front men.
  — SI.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• In those days, he was known as a center forward, now called a striker, the goal-scoring front man.
  — Phil Davison, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• In turn, Pompeo, who is also closer to Trump, has become the front man.
  — TheWeek, 7 Jan. 2020
• Putin’s front men have been blunt about wiping out any remnants of Ukraine-ness from that country.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2024
• Their departures render Montas, 29, the clear front man of a raw unit.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2022
• Nick Ritchie, formerly a net-front man, is now in Toronto.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Down in the bowels of the museum, in Wilco’s backstage suite, Jeff Tweedy, the band’s front man, was lying in an empty claw-footed bathtub, posing for photographs.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• With the Bleachers front man, Swift peruses familiar pockets.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024