How to Use company man in a Sentence

company man

noun

• This is the language of a company man, not a freethinker.
  — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
• Costner would be a splashy get for a straight-to-streaming movie, and the actor was a company man.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 28 June 2024
• Barbara convinced a few company men to transfer their business to her.
  — Longreads, 23 Apr. 2018
• Tuello is the other side of the coin — dedicated to the rule of law, a company man.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 16 June 2021
• Barkley then fired back on X, accusing Barber of being a company man for the team.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2024
• The idea of the company man who works at one organization for his entire career feels laughably outdated.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2021
• The idea of the company man who works at one organisation for his entire career feels laughably outdated.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• Mattinison was, perhaps, one of the last of an almost extinct genotype—the happy company man, the lifer.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
• Asked about not pitching, Cole, who has spent two seasons in Houston after five in Pittsburgh, was a company man.
  — Cindy Boren, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Ho-Sang gave me the introductory lesson in drinking etiquette that is the first thing any company man in Seoul must learn.
  — Wesley Yang, Bon Appetit, 9 May 2017
• Now Big Papi is a company man, delivering the party line for Sox owners.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2020
• First-time head coach Campo was a good company man, and solid defensive coordinator.
  — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025
• Mnuchin, by contrast, is often viewed as a company man -- regurgitating talking points even in private discussions.
  — Sara Murray and Jeff Zeleny, CNN, 14 Sep. 2017
• Meyers was, of course, doing some classic company man work by taking jabs at one of NBC’s major network rivals.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
• Shine was seen as a low-key executive and company man at Fox News, serving as co-president of the network before leaving.
  — Josh Dawsey, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
• Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• Not even Styles—returning to acting as company man Jack Chambers, his most substantive role yet—was immune.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2022
• Despite his deference to the chain of command, McMaster was not a company man in the narrow sense that the Army wanted.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• The ideal company man, Curry will do his job without complaint this season, weaving through double- and triple-teams to help ensure the Warriors get back to the playoffs.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2021
• The 1980s saw the inscrutable foreigner with his secret allegiance to the emperor evolve into the company man with an obsessive allegiance to work.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2019
• Styles carries himself with confidence as eager young company man and loving but increasingly conflicted husband Jack Chambers.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2022
• Brown’s long career at MGM came with a price—a reputation as a company man that did him no favors with critics who established directorial hierarchies.
  — Scott Eyman, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• The three-martini lunch may be remembered as an anachronistic ritual during which backslapping company men escaped a swallowing sense of existential pointlessness.
  — Adam Sternbergh, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• With that in mind, and a lack of serious options at the moment, the decisions to appoint two company men, Rosenior and Fletcher — albeit in different circumstances — is more understandable than in previous years.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• Headstrong by reputation, opinionated, notoriously brusque (and often, in public, misogynistic and racist), Prince Philip was also in important ways the model of a company man.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
• Nearly seven years removed from breaking from his reputation as the quintessential company man to interrupt Myers’ news conference and express his frustration with the Bazemore trade, Curry can finally call one of his best friends a teammate again.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• After appearing as supercilious EPA company man Walter Peck in Ghostbusters, Atherton completed his trilogy of goofy comedies with Real Genius (1985) and Bio-Dome (1996).
  — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026