How to Use straw man in a Sentence

straw man

noun

• That kept their favorite straw man alive to take more hits.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2021
• Senator Brown’s $300 per month tax cut is a straw man in more ways than one.
  — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• The book has the confounding idea of rebelling against recipes as a sort of villainous straw man.
  — Wired, 1 Aug. 2022
• Part of it is human nature, and because there isn't a white straw man at the end of that, the villain is really the system.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 10 May 2018
• But the claim is a straw man: there is no epidemic of pandemic denial.
  — Jacob Hale Russell, STAT, 23 Dec. 2020
• Notably, Villanueva appears to have set up a straw man here.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• Campillo is much more interested in the push and pull of each discussion, and in making sure there are no straw men to root against.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
• But one of the report's authors suggested Koonin is creating a straw man.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Nov. 2017
• The issue has produced a lot of straw men, largely owing to a revenue and salary model that differs a great deal from most American sports.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 8 July 2019
• Evison says book banning is a political straw man, and the stakes are much higher than just the books being targeted.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
• The Utah Senator set up the straw man that the President’s lawyers said an impeachable act must also be a criminal offense.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• One piece of advice comes from Natarajan: Rebut the strongest, and not the weakest, version of an opposing argument; steel man, don’t straw man.
  — Bo Seo, The Atlantic, 1 June 2022
• The Axe debuted on the eve of a baseball game between the universities in 1899, when Stanford students used it to decapitate a straw man adorned in Cal blue and gold.
  — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• The attempt to shut down all such conversations in the name of a broad, blurred, straw man version of Critical Race Theory does not serve the nation’s best interests.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• Most importantly, this volume reveals that Coates’ critics to have been attacking a straw man all along.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New Republic, 26 Oct. 2017
• Too often, a debate can turn into trading arguments about whose straw man fell down the slippery slope onto Occam’s razor the most.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
• Indeed, the series opens with a flashback of Suleiman as a child rather than any introduction to Ryan, and there’s obvious care taken to make the Muslim characters more than stereotypes or straw men.
  — Karen Han, Vox, 31 Aug. 2018
• Once again those with a global agenda have created a straw man by misrepresenting the position of their critics.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2011
• Shivaun Raff believes that some of search neutrality’s critics were simply attacking a straw man.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 6 Dec. 2018
• Richard Warshak, a leading proponent of parental alienation theory, has written that many critics misunderstand the theory or create a straw man to dismiss it.
  — Kathryn Joyce, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Our suspicion is that the many gravity modellers from around the world evaluated a nonsensical Brexit straw man during the referendum, in order to oppose it.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• But instead of rallying behind any of these causes, some of the most powerful and visible women in media and entertainment are busy using trans people as a straw man to express a nebulous fear that the word woman itself is somehow under threat.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 5 July 2022
• His rationale was a legally frivolous straw man: Clinton had not intended to harm national security.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
• Funneling money surreptitiously to campaigns through other donors — known as straw man donations — would violate federal campaign finance laws.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024