How to Use man of the people in a Sentence

man of the people

noun phrase

• Sarnoski’s attachment to the myth of Robin Hood — a dashing man of the people who robbed from the rich to give to the poor — has deep roots.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
• Stark, having been elected governor and already well along in his fateful descent from an idealistic man of the people to an entirely corrupt megalomaniac, is on the way to visit his childhood home.
  — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
• Jude is an erudite man of the people whose hyper-literate intellectualism is only matched by his Chaucer-like vulgarity, and his work has long reveled in an impish fascination with the relationship between art, labor, and technology.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
• Viral memes, in 2024 and now, have romanticized him as a popular – and incredibly attractive – man of the people who made corporate elites within the American health insurance industry afraid.
  — Evan Clarkson, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2026
• Zito also called out other socialists, such as former Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner, for attempting to appeal to voters as a working man of the people.
  — Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 17 July 2026