How to Use man in a Sentence

man

1 of 2 noun
  • He's a grown man now.
  • Are you man enough to meet the challenge?
  • He was a shy boy, but he grew to be a strong and confident man.
  • The movie is popular with men and women.
  • The man at the center of the brand’s peaks and valleys?
    ELLE, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Up to the stage stepped the man of the hour — of the last half century.
    Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • This is a man who used the tool of the golf club to fight for justice.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 2 July 2021
  • That man put in a lot of work and effort to grow our staff.
    Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • And a lot of times, movements are put in place to take the place of the white man.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Well, like the man said, who knows what the future holds?
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Get the right man in place, and good things can happen.
    Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The man in the video then walks out of view of the camera and across the subway platform.
    Rob Frehse, CNN, 7 June 2022
  • Cézanne at the time was a hard painter to love and an even harder man to like.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Police said the man who died was pronounced dead at the scene.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Finding the perfect present for the man in your life can be tricky.
    Lauren Dana, SELF, 9 June 2022
  • And he wasn't told that by just anyone, but the man in charge.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 17 May 2022
  • But the biggest thing about him is he’s such a great young man.
    Giana Han, al, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Beth decides the ranch is the best place to teach him a lesson on how to be a man.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 July 2021
  • The Falls man's parents were in the car and were injured.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2023
  • All over the North, Black men rushed to answer the call.
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • No man of the theatre has ever been more of the theatre, to the last row.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
  • It is determined by the parental love shown by a man to a child.
    Dallas News, 20 June 2021
  • Bryant talked with another man in the store and then left.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 12 July 2021
  • The victim fell to the ground as the van sped away with the man’s valuables, the report said.
    Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Both of those guys can playmake and break their man down.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
  • There was a man in a car next to mine, with his windows rolled up.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Ohio State mixed up man and zone, and got beat in both.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2021
  • McIntyre missed the mark a bit, as any grown man would.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 22 June 2022
  • All but one of this off-season’s hires was a white man.
    James Wagner, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Next-man-up turns out to be more than mantra for the Pacers.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Nov. 2021
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man

2 of 2 verb
  • No one was manning the front desk.
  • We'll need someone to man the phones this evening.
  • He stocked shelves while I manned the cash register.
  • The wall needs to be rebuilt just in case and manned again.
    Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The staff was asked to take more shifts to man those spaces.
    Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • So the idea was to man up everywhere and just to be spare in the back.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The guards were brought in at the request of the workers to man key stops in the floating city.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Prince Philip likes to spend his time manning the grill.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Aug. 2017
  • One of the enemy crew jumped up and prepared to man the weapon.
    Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Prince Philip likes to spend his time manning the grill.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Now, the question is which writers will man up and write about how wrong this is.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2022
  • There are reports that some states have the equipment in place, but may not have the staff to man the lines.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2022
  • This is the first time maned wolf pups have been born at a zoo in Connecticut.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • In the final year of the war, the guard towers were no longer manned with armed soldiers and the men were able to leave the camp freely.
    Time, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The last time it was fully manned was in August, for the total eclipse.
    Donald Bradley, kansascity, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The group needs someone to man the phone at all hours, as more and more requests are coming in.
    Judith Magyar, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Lemonade stands as far as the eye can see — and adorable kids manning every one.
    Jamie Wiebe, House Beautiful, 17 Mar. 2015
  • Who will man the middle of the zone with Vanderbilt out?
    Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The Irish carrier is struggling to find enough cheap labour to man its flights.
    The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • Da Kine Poke mans a food truck in the beer garden that serves its full menu.
    Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 May 2018
  • Prince Philip, on the other hand, likes to spend his time manning the grill.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 29 July 2019
  • Taggart looked like a coach who arrived under-manned and played not to lose.
    John Canzano, OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Martha Stewart manned the helm of a giant wheel barrel of gourds.
    Grace McCarty, SELF, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Gray will likely man up against Bateman on the outside.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2020
  • From the start, Trump’s legal team has been out-manned by Mueller’s.
    Shannon Pettypiece, Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2018
  • The fire & rescue bump will largely be to man a new fire station to be built in west Huntsville.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2022
  • After a few hours, a second pickup arrived, manned by a team of three.
    Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The last hope may lie with an ex-pilot and his trainee manning an old model Jaeger.
    Guy Hanford, Ramona Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In this case, the president either believes his own lies or cannot bring himself to man up and...
    WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The lifeline is manned 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
    Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 12 July 2019

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