How to Use one-man in a Sentence

one-man

adjective

• The 26-year-old Clase was in some ways a one-man bullpen.
  — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• The plan is to bring my one-man show to the U.K. sometime next year.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
• The one-man sit-in mushroomed in the weeks after the attacks.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Face it, in some ways lately, he’s been a one-man team.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• The size of the structures range from one-man shelters up to 24 people.
  — Brett French, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Talk about your one-man show that began to turn things around.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• The series is an adaptation of Gadd’s one-man stage show of the same name.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 25 June 2024
• Robertson was not a one-man show, but definitely the star of the Bearcat team.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2024
• Who’s the lawyer who is on a one-man mission to block green energy projects across Ohio?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• Something about the songs called out for more than a one-man, one-mic recording approach.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
• Thorpe rushes, returns kicks and does all the kicking in putting on a one-man show.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Her dad and uncle even raced together, with a one-man pit crew, her dad.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2023
• He’s been an in-demand actor and speaker and still performs a one-man show at least 40 times a year.
  — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Butler came through with 28 points but Miami isn’t a one-man show.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2023
• While the lineup around him has gone cold recently, Ohtani has turned into a one-man Sho.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 22 Sep. 2024
• So, Hay decided to set about finding his own audience and take the one-man show honed at Largo on the road.
  — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2024
• But Williams, who returned to Auburn as the team’s running back coach in 2019, wasn’t a one-man show during his playing days at Auburn.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• Other members turned to Glen Allen, a lawyer who has emerged as a kind of one-man far-right legal-defense team.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
• The one-man show is written and performed by Edelman and was directed by Brace.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
• Here was a new kind of Holocaust movie: the death-camp drama as existential one-man odyssey.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The performance led to more success for Gadd who then wrote his one-man play, Baby Reindeer in 2019.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2024
• In the beginning, Daniel was a one-man show, working on the cars, answering phones and helping customers at the front desk.
  — First National Bank Alaska, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023
• This time, Saunders followed the scouting report and dropped into an almost one-man zone in the lane.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• In every Lee Child book, Reacher is effectively a one-man army with a heart of gold.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• Joseph Gitler, an oleh from New York, began it all 20 years ago as a one-man volunteer effort.
  — Judith Segaloff, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• Stern provides steady comedy support, sort of a one-man Mel Brooks movie.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2024
• Buddy Guy, a one-man chamber of commerce and embodiment of the blues.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
• But Roy hasn’t reaped any benefits from his one-man charge, save for more attention.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
• Now that Kevin Von Erich is in the process of moving back to Texas, the wrestling legend is expanding his schedule of one-man shows to visit more of the state and its neighbors.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
• Through four games, Gentry led the Trojans in tackles, tackles for loss and sacks as a one-man wrecking crew, capable of plugging holes or rushing off the edge.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024