How to Use one-man band in a Sentence
one-man band
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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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