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
  • Those two specials played like one-man, off-Broadway shows, or an evening at The Moth.
    Will Digravio, TIME, 23 Oct. 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
  • Included in that is the start of a return to his one-man show and stand-up comedy roots.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • 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 | Alee@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Laughlin sent the reporter to Europe, with a dream job as a one-man foreign bureau.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In Iraq, an unstable Baathist coalition was overthrown in a brutal coup by a new one-man regime led by the thuggish Saddam Hussein.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

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