How to Use Renaissance man in a Sentence

Renaissance man

noun

• That would be enough for most people, but not this Renaissance man.
  — Ruth Reichl, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
• If there’s such a thing as an 18-year-old Renaissance man, Moore is that.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
• The Renaissance man Reed still believes in the Warriors, not just in his prose.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• Dallas jazz trumpeter and artist Dennis González left a legacy as a Renaissance man.
  — Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2022
• Joseph’s son, Mike Gatto, told Dateline that his father was a true Renaissance man.
  — Rachel Legon, NBC News, 17 July 2023
• Pliny was like a Renaissance man a millennium and a half before the Renaissance.
  — Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• Lawyer, actor, and socialist activist Paul Robeson was a stylish Renaissance man.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 12 Sep. 2022
• Trivium’s Matt Heafy has continued to shine as a ‘Renaissance man’ of today’s heavy music scene.
  — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Yet even without all that, looking at Martin’s filmography reveals a Renaissance man.
  — Will Leitch, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
• Take James Weldon Johnson, a recurring character in the show and a true Renaissance man.
  — Camellia Burris, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• In the family, he was known as a Renaissance man — an investment adviser who preferred to build boats, cook doughnuts over a wood stove and grow giant zucchinis.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 11 June 2024
• After a time, Patterson’s play-it-down-the-middle approach feels less like the remembrances of a Renaissance man and more like evasive, unassertive hedging.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
• Aidan Turner portrays the original Renaissance man in this new historical drama.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
• Remembered as a real Renaissance man, a political leader known for being the country’s second prime minister and a lover of alchemy.
  — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
• This French automotive wonder was the creation of Gabriel Voisin, an architect, an airplane builder, and all-round Renaissance man.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2025
• After all, the 72-year-old Hoosier is quite the Renaissance man, dabbling in film, musical theater, painting and more between album releases.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
• In life, Bologne was nothing short of a Parisian celebrity, an 18th-century Renaissance man equally accomplished in the fields of music, fencing and war.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2022
• The 51-year-old Armenian-American has always been a Renaissance man, dabbling in the arts across various media.
  — Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Sep. 2025
• One by one, the litany of speakers including family members, a lawyer, a former town first selectman, a firefighter, poets, educators and environmentalists, spoke to honor Leff, a man described by friends as a Renaissance man.
  — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2022
• Gates was celebrated as a modern-day Renaissance man whose practice incorporates sculpture, conceptual formalism, music, performance, land art and space theory to create community.
  — Hadley Meares, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
• While Da Vinci’s visit predates the 1573 villa, the Renaissance man was one of several luminaries who inspected the natural phenomenon.
  — Jaclyn Degiorgio, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2025
• There is perhaps little in common with the Italian Renaissance man and a finance major with a master’s degree in sports management from the University of Georgia who, upon graduation, accepted a job at an accounting firm.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
• New defensive coordinator Bill McGovern, whose resume is eerily reminiscent of that of his predecessor, reveals himself as a Renaissance man running an aggressive scheme.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022