How to Use one-man band in a Sentence

one-man band

noun
  • For all that Larvadain can do on the field, Riverside is far from a one-man band.
    Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Curry was a one-man band on offense for most of Game 3.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
  • But Leonard isn’t a one-man band tethered to a stream of isolations.
    Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 10 June 2019
  • The one-man band of a plastic music-maker can be glimpsed amid all the film’s antique toys.
    Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
  • My cabaret shows are like a one-man band sort of situation.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
  • As Wings were winding down at the start of the 1980s, McCartney returned to the one-man band format similar to his debut record.
    David Chiu, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Initially, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat was a one-man band.
    Max Savage Levenson, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Labour is not a one-man band, and its position on Britain’s nuclear arsenal reflects this.
    The Economist, 6 June 2019
  • Ochoa’s choreography, based on Saint-Exupéry’s beloved novella, is set to music by Peter Salem, who will perform on stage as a one-man band.
    Ellen Dunkel, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • However Troncone, who starred, directed, shot, wrote, composed the music and, yes, edited, was pretty much a one-man band here.
    latimes.com, 6 June 2019
  • Al Foul is part of the cultural fabric on the Arizona music scene, a charismatic one-man band whose sound is steeped in rockabilly, blues and old-school country.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Minnesota didn’t have a proper pick-and-roll partner for Towns as Derrick Rose largely operated as a one-man band.
    Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 6 July 2019
  • The one-man band The Washington Post writes that Trump has effectively been performing the roles of several senior staffers, calling the shots himself.
    NBC News, 29 May 2018
  • On Friday there’s a live one-man band playing Brazilian Sertaneja country music.
    Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
  • As a live act, the one-man band transformed into a six-piece incorporating acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, keyboard, drums and trumpet.
    Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2017
  • With no tour or movie in the works, the hyper-creative one-man band with an appetite for experimentation, novelty and any style of music was constantly recording.
    Jon Bream, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2020

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