How to Use man on the street in a Sentence

man on the street

noun phrase

• Ten years and one day later, his administration’s agents shot a disarmed man on the street in full view of the public.
  — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2026
• Authorities said the altercation started as a fight between several men on the street.
  — Da Lin, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
• This bold release revives a 1930s fashion illustration featuring an image of a man on the street that reads more abstract when knotted.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
• Dogs with Elias, which launches tomorrow, is a man on the street style interview series that will air on The Dogist YouTube channel.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
• Garavani’s death touched Italians across the board, from heads of state to the proverbial man on the street, all still reeling from the death of Giorgio Armani last September.
  — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 21 Jan. 2026
• In the original video, Enquirer trending news editor David Wysong interviews a man in downtown Cincinnati as part of a man on the street video series.
  — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Feb. 2026
• The factors that sent the murder rate soaring 30% in 2020—social disruption, workplace and school closures that put young men on the street, stay-home recommendations that trapped people with abusers— faded as normal life returned.
  — The Week Us, TheWeek, 15 June 2026