How to Use leading man in a Sentence

leading man

noun

• 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
• 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
• Restless for their next project, del Toro and his leading man were watching old movies together and casting about for new ideas.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2022
• Plus, there was not—nor has there been since—a hotter, more earnest leading man than Tom Welling as Clark Kent.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2022
• Paramount’s upcoming Bob Marley biopic has found its leading man.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
• The show’s leading man Robbie Amell, who plays Nathan, was also in attendance with his own father on the red carpet.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2022
• Around the same time, the actor William Haines was forging his own career as a leading man: in Haines’ case, as a wisecracking matinee idol.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 15 Feb. 2022
• The preferred approach when your starting point guard and Sixth Man Award candidate are out probably is not to then see your leading man ejected.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2022
• As is the wont of a leading man, Kelce played a pivotal role.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 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
• 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
• 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
• Superman has a new leading man … and a new outfit of the day.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 6 May 2024
• 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
• Without its leading man at full strength, the show still went on in March Madness.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 18 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Joe Alwyn is the rare leading man who manages to steer his path just out of the blinding glare of fame.
  — Harry Carr, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2022
• But this is a league about stars, and in the playoffs, nobody matters more than your leading man.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• Pitt's not the only leading man to step out in a skirt recently.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 July 2022
• Grant Ellis just went from snubbed Bachelorette suitor to Bachelor leading man in a matter of minutes.
  — Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 12 Aug. 2024
• The watch also comes with a second, alligator bracelet, but evidently, leading men prefer all gold.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024