How to Use stuntman in a Sentence

stuntman

noun
  • Sure, the stuntman at your table will go for the Panic Button or the Alamo Reaper at the high end of the 0 to 6 scale.
    Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Leitch happened to work as Pitt's stuntman on that film.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • The 40-year-old stuntman has been a part of some of Hollywood biggest flicks in the past 10 years.
    John Thompson, menshealth.com, 31 May 2023
  • One was, of course, to help promote their film, The Fall Guy, which stars Gosling as a down-on-his-luck stuntman.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 May 2024
  • The costumes had to be on stuntmen who were fighting very hard.
    John Ortved, ajc, 22 Jan. 2018
  • When the lead actor of their movie goes missing, Gosling’s stuntman steps up to try and find him.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • With the Jackass title going strong for over 20 years, Knoxville and the rest of the stuntman crew still aren't ready to call it quits.
    Rachel Schonberger, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • He got winded simply doing the warm-ups with the stuntmen and had to lie down for two hours.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Bernecker is believed to be the first stuntman to die on a U.S. set since 2000.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Among the top earners are gamers, stuntmen and makeup artists.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2019
  • In take after take, Charles pummeled Tim Gallin, the stuntman hired to wear the Barney suit.
    Timothy Bella, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The movie focuses on a stuntman who needs to find the missing star who is part of his ex-lover’s hit film.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 2 May 2024
  • Early on, a stuntman stomped on Patel's foot and broke it.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In another, the stuntman spun around with the gun pointed up, and then handed the gun to a child actor.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
  • He was hit so hard by a stuntman while filming a scene for a movie that two crowns popped loose from his molars.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The scene at the beginning of the film where Guy gets hit by a car was planned as a multi-stunt sequence where the stuntman would get hit.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
  • As a firefighter and stuntman, Vero is use to working with fire.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 13 July 2023
  • In what might be his last interaction with some of the actors, stuntmen, and crew, Kit jokes around and smiles.
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 27 May 2019
  • And this week’s L.A. premiere had stuntmen crashing through glass, pulled through walls, and Beavis and Butthead.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 3 May 2024
  • The judges for the contest include actress Laurie Love and stuntman Chris Leps.
    Elizabeth Montgomery, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Gutierrez-Reed, the daughter of Hollywood stuntman Thell Reed, was in charge of weapons and gun safety on the set.
    NBC News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • David Leitch, the stuntman who over the past decade has become an in-demand director, is behind the project.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2024
  • The stuntman, 41, was pronounced dead at the scene at Longcross near Chertsey, Surrey, England.
    Katie Campione and Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Ryan Gosling prepared for the role of Colt Seavers by talking to the original stuntman himself.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Or jumped a horse as a legendary stuntman in countless Westerns.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 28 July 2021
  • Outside of the fight world, LeBell worked in film and television as a stuntman, appearing in more than 250 films.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • In older movies, duel scenes featured movie stars in close-ups only; the rest was done by stuntmen.
    Michele Wojciechowski, HWD, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Deadpool 2 is the work of David Leitch, a career stuntman who’s now directing.
    Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
  • In Tarantino’s reimagining, a stuntman gets the better of him.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Simon Crane, a legendary stuntman with over 90 movie credits to his name, slid on a cable from one plane (a DC-9) to the other, with no safety wires.
    New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024

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