How to Use everyman in a Sentence

everyman

noun
  • For starters, what attracts you to these down-on-their-luck everymen?
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Take away the bling and the braids and his appearance is everyman too.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Ruiz is a skilled, tough fighter in the package of an everyman.
    Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 5 June 2019
  • The everyman who stood toe-to-toe with one of the best players in the world and dropped an ace right in front of him.
    Gerrit Ritt, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • Whether his everyman persona can carry him far out of his state remains to be seen.
    Tara Golshan, Vox, 26 June 2019
  • Only the rich get to drop out of society with everyman style.
    Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 6 May 2020
  • Fans embraced him as a sort of rock everyman who shunned the spotlight offstage.
    Anne Steele, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • But inside all of us there’s an everyman who can face the greatest darkness.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 26 July 2024
  • As the stoic everyman who must save the world, Willis is well-chosen.
    Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2019
  • For Rei’s flock—from everymen and superstars alike—that says it all.
    Adam Wray, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Part of baseball’s charm is the everyman nature of its players.
    Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Kevin James fancies himself an everyman in his comedic roles.
    Dan Gelston, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Malone's voice is a fragile everyman's voice, with a slight Texas twang.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • As Norm on ‘Cheers’ and in real life, no one was a better everyman.
    Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
  • The team's everyman appeal is as strong as the players are accomplished.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 10 June 2017
  • Yet the very-not-everyman golfers are always within an arm’s length, milling about the grounds like weekend duffers.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
  • Barney, the everyman of the show, is a weirdo—but so is every other character.
    Laura Zornosa, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
  • To read Parker is to get an everyman’s sense of the late-twenties literary scene.
    Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Kim-boy exists, in essence, as an everyman enduring the ups and downs of rural Alaskan life.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Damon plays Gardner as a kind of quiet everyman, the type who goes unnoticed most of the time.
    Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Evans was a onetime club bouncer who became the everyman in the Beatles camp.
    Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Designed to hit high at the waist and drop straight down to the hem, these jeans are a closet staple because of their everyman silhouette.
    Taylor Ayers, Marie Claire, 19 Apr. 2020
  • But this scruffy piece of land a bit north of the fancy houses is no man's land — or perhaps more accurately, everyman’s land.
    Diana Marcum, latimes.com, 10 June 2017
  • But Jon Bon Jovi sings the everyman story like there’s no tomorrow.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • How the son of a Kenyan economist became an Illinois everyman.
    Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Curren$y is one of Fly Anakin’s heroes, and there’s an everyman quality to both rappers.
    Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Robert Donat plays a classic Hitchcock everyman caught up in a web of intrigue and suspense.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The bald Tellez has also made his mark inside the Brewers’ clubhouse with his everyman persona.
    John Perrotto, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Maybe Yamamoto’s unassuming everyman act is just that good?
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
  • In a way, Holmes was everyman’s gigolo, a polyester smoothy with a sparse mustache, a flying collar and lots of buttons undone.
    Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021

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