How to Use leading man in a Sentence

leading man

noun

• As is the wont of a leading man, Kelce played a pivotal role.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• This was a big deal for the leading man that sent shockwaves through the set.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
• So, yes, teams are erring on the side of caution with leading men.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• In the nearly three-minute clip, Spears reads lines with the film’s leading man Ryan Gosling.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
• With Lasso's shine fading, The Bear's leading man is the one to beat.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2024
• Among its charms is a scene in which the leading man appears to float through a room.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• Collin Sexton still has a lot of work to do as a leading man.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2022
• It’s the rhythm of a leading man, going somewhere and nowhere fast.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• But at the end of season 3, Benedict doesn’t seem to be ready to be the leading man quite yet.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 July 2024
• But at the end of season 3, Benedict doesn't seem to be ready to be the leading man quite yet.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 13 June 2024
• But for all the film's success, leading man Ryan Gosling would like a do-over.
  — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 2 May 2024
• Roundtree was a leading man from the very start of his lifetime in screen acting.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• And that always is a tough call, about whether to put a struggling leading man back in the game.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• What a trope: Actress falls in love with her leading man.
  — Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
• Zach Shallcross, 26, is the new leading man on the 27th season of The Bachelor.
  — Women's Health, 23 Jan. 2023
• Any sign of Kim’s new leading man this early in the season?
  — Vogue, 15 Apr. 2022
• How did pop’s leading man dominate the charts (and screens) in 2020?
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2021
• Two of Britain’s leading men are duking it out for the U.K.’s chart titles.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 7 Jan. 2020
• Being a leading man in a box office draw, all of that stuff is cool.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
• Superman has a new leading man … and a new outfit of the day.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 6 May 2024
• De La Hoya, on the other hand, would have been a leading man in anyone’s book.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2022
• Levy has found his leading man, and Reynolds his secret weapon.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• My Policeman marks the second of two films in which Styles has played the leading man this year.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2022
• One reminder from the night was that West still was the leading man in this production.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
• Lowe, who played a supporting role in 2017, will return to the show at Mad Cow as the leading man.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Without its leading man at full strength, the show still went on in March Madness.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 18 Mar. 2023
• The best thing that happened to me was Robert Aldrich, the director, who said, ‘Don’t be a leading man, kid.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• The leading men of the show traded their donkey and horse for a paletero cart and a big wheel bike with a horse skull attached.
  — Luis G. Rendon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• That pause, of course, was caused in part by disputes — and ultimately a break-up — between Sheridan and Yellowstone’s original leading man, Kevin Costner.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024
• While a tabloid scandal and a terrorist plot don’t seem like fuel for a winning Oscar campaign, all of it contributed to Crowe’s image as a throwback to the days when Hollywood leading men were virile and larger than life.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025