How to Use alpha male in a Sentence

alpha male

noun

• Ross’ next coach needs to be an alpha male, a leader of men.
  — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 11 Jan. 2026
• Then, in 2015, a new alpha male emerged.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
• The alpha male fox is very used to humans and has begged me for food before.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
• The same can be said about the name Chad, which has been used to describe an alpha male.
  — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 31 May 2024
• And, basically, an alpha male for them is a bully.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• That particular wolf was the alpha male in a pack of 16 and was coming off a fresh kill.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2026
• Not trying to please society, or be strong, or an alpha male, or whatever.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
• Ultimately, that meant not being an alpha male.
  — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
• Due to pathetically low t-levels, these men seek out other ways to assert their alpha male role.
  — Randy Dotinga, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• The stereotypical alpha male has held his place in pop culture for generations.
  — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 13 Aug. 2024
• The alpha male was a foster, and his mate whelped — or gave birth — during the same week, making the pack an ideal candidate to receive pups.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2024
• The office staff is dealing with an alpha male CEO who also has a bit of a drinking problem.
  — Michelle Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2024
• The new alpha male immediately understood how to teach the younger chimpanzee how to behave.
  — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 25 Feb. 2026
• Look Who’s Back, stars as Uri, the alpha male of a kibbutz and one of the pioneers of the state of Israel.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 July 2024
• That same year, Western chimps attacked and severely injured the alpha male of the Central cluster.
  — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
• In the lead-up to the killings in Gombe, there was a dearth of females ready to mate, some of the friendliest older males died and the group experienced a change in alpha male.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
• Vulnerability is out; after a few post-#MeToo years in the wilderness, the alpha male is back.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
• Shortly after, violence ensued, and the alpha male together with a few of his allies killed and dismembered the little one.
  — Susana Monsó, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
• The film centers on an alpha male sea lion navigating a changing world disrupted by overfishing and climate change.
  — Essie Assibu, Variety, 7 July 2025
• Image Image Stella cultivated an image of a man who was always ahead of the pack, an alpha male who could outrun you.
  — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 5 May 2024
• That same year, Western chimps attacked and severely injured the alpha male of the larger Central cluster.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
• The role models offered up in today’s crop of alpha male podcasters and crypto grifters provide little in the face of the world’s dizzying buffet of hostilities.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023
• Another possibility may be that, once established, an alpha male simply doesn’t need to spar as intensely or as often as before.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2025
• After all, not all men are alpha male and want to embrace the typical male leadership style that is present in numerous corporations and endorsed by some of the world leaders.
  — Lidija Globokar, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• This franchise needs to find the biggest and baddest alpha male, someone with a reputation that demands respect, a persona that evokes authority.
  — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
• In one case, the late Jane Goodall observed an alpha male chimpanzee named Fabian who lost the use of his arm due to polio; his brother became the new alpha male.
  — ArsTechnica, 20 Apr. 2026
• The Dolphins need a leader with a firm grip on the team, an alpha male who makes the most physical and forceful professional athletes listen out of not only respect, but fear.
  — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
• Sandel suspects those ties were strained by an unusually large group size, competition over food and reproduction, alpha male changes and diseases that killed adults that were key bridges between clusters.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2026
• One adoption is featured in the 2012, Disneynature movie Chimpanzee, in which the alpha male took an orphan under his wing.
  — Time, 17 June 2023
• The bullfighter Escamillo is a fantastic role for Randy Crespo, who swaggers around flaunting his alpha male status.
  — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025