How to Use man in a Sentence

man

1 of 2 noun

• He's a grown man now.
• Are you man enough to meet the challenge?
• He was a shy boy, but he grew to be a strong and confident man.
• The movie is popular with men and women.
• The man at the center of the brand’s peaks and valleys?
  — ELLE, 19 Apr. 2022
• Up to the stage stepped the man of the hour — of the last half century.
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• All over the North, Black men rushed to answer the call.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Well, like the man said, who knows what the future holds?
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2021
• This is a man who used the tool of the golf club to fight for justice.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 2 July 2021
• And a lot of times, movements are put in place to take the place of the white man.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2021
• The Falls man's parents were in the car and were injured.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2023
• That man put in a lot of work and effort to grow our staff.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• In the book, our man Fletch is engaged to an heiress from Italy.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
• Get the right man in place, and good things can happen.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
• Next-man-up turns out to be more than mantra for the Pacers.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Nov. 2021
• And he wasn't told that by just anyone, but the man in charge.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 17 May 2022
• Ohio State mixed up man and zone, and got beat in both.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2021
• The man in the video then walks out of view of the camera and across the subway platform.
  — Rob Frehse, CNN, 7 June 2022
• McIntyre missed the mark a bit, as any grown man would.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 22 June 2022
• The victim fell to the ground as the van sped away with the man’s valuables, the report said.
  — Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• But the biggest thing about him is he’s such a great young man.
  — Giana Han, al, 31 Dec. 2020
• Cézanne at the time was a hard painter to love and an even harder man to like.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• No man of the theatre has ever been more of the theatre, to the last row.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
• Finding the perfect present for the man in your life can be tricky.
  — Lauren Dana, SELF, 9 June 2022
• Police said the man who died was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
• Beth decides the ranch is the best place to teach him a lesson on how to be a man.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 July 2021
• Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, clocks in at 28 miles per hour.
  — Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 3 July 2020
• All but one of this off-season’s hires was a white man.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
• Both of those guys can playmake and break their man down.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
• There was a man in a car next to mine, with his windows rolled up.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2020

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man

2 of 2 verb

• No one was manning the front desk.
• We'll need someone to man the phones this evening.
• He stocked shelves while I manned the cash register.
• The wall needs to be rebuilt just in case and manned again.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 14 Feb. 2018
• The staff was asked to take more shifts to man those spaces.
  — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2020
• So the idea was to man up everywhere and just to be spare in the back.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2022
• Prince Philip likes to spend his time manning the grill.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Aug. 2017
• The guards were brought in at the request of the workers to man key stops in the floating city.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 22 Aug. 2021
• From the start, Trump’s legal team has been out-manned by Mueller’s.
  — Shannon Pettypiece, Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2018
• The lifeline is manned 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 12 July 2019
• Some also wonder if the F-35 will be the last new manned fighter in the line-up.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2017
• Prince Philip likes to spend his time manning the grill.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Aug. 2017
• Da Kine Poke mans a food truck in the beer garden that serves its full menu.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 May 2018
• The last time it was fully manned was in August, for the total eclipse.
  — Donald Bradley, kansascity, 22 Jan. 2018
• This is the first time maned wolf pups have been born at a zoo in Connecticut.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• In the final year of the war, the guard towers were no longer manned with armed soldiers and the men were able to leave the camp freely.
  — Time, 3 Jan. 2020
• One of the enemy crew jumped up and prepared to man the weapon.
  — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• There are reports that some states have the equipment in place, but may not have the staff to man the lines.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2022
• Prince Philip, on the other hand, likes to spend his time manning the grill.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 29 July 2019
• Now, the question is which writers will man up and write about how wrong this is.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2022
• In some ways, Sarah also wants John B. to man up and stop running.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• Scott would man the phones once a week at 10 a.m., briefing the other teams about his progress.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• The Irish carrier is struggling to find enough cheap labour to man its flights.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• Who will man the middle of the zone with Vanderbilt out?
  — Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 16 Oct. 2017
• The group needs someone to man the phone at all hours, as more and more requests are coming in.
  — Judith Magyar, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• But now there aren’t enough CBP officers to man the booths.
  — Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
• The fire & rescue bump will largely be to man a new fire station to be built in west Huntsville.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2022
• Few staff manned the entrances and exits, the report said.
  — Sabby Robinson, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• Lemonade stands as far as the eye can see — and adorable kids manning every one.
  — Jamie Wiebe, House Beautiful, 17 Mar. 2015
• The $2 billion project is manned by a crew of 145 Israelis and foreign workers.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 2 May 2024