How to Use manager in a Sentence
manager
noun- I'd like to speak to the manager, please.
- The manager decided to change pitchers in the eighth inning.
- He was promoted to manager last year.
- The actress recently fired her manager.
- The team's general manager acquired five new players for the upcoming season.
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Some managers don't even know who still works for them.
—Carmel Wroth, NPR, 5 Apr. 2025
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For a few years, the women took turns as the acting managers of the center.
—Kelly Grant/the Globe and Mail (canada), San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
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The manager claims that Chrisley then slapped him in the face two times.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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But where does that leave them when and if the man in the manager’s chair changes next season?
—Joe Noga, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
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At that point, Wakefield walked into the store and asked to speak to the manager.
—Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
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Skip to end of carousel End of carousel Meghan Alessi, a project manager in Louisville, knows how that feels.
—Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
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Buck Showalter, the first-year manager of the New York Mets, is in the postseason for the first time since 2016.
—Tim Brown, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
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My phone pings with an email from our building manager down in the city.
—Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Bench coach Miguel Cairo will remain the acting manager for the rest of the season.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
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The last three general managers who left the Red Sox have done pretty well.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
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Lamer works as the office manager and runs a free food bank at All Peoples Church.
—Joan Elovitz Kazan, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2023
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Team managers need to speak up and protect their riders.
—Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 9 May 2023
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My managers came for an hour visit once and wound up staying all day.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 May 2025
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My managers took the threat seriously as well, putting my wife and I up in a hotel.
—Chris Gloninger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
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The new manager, who is white, had been shot in the knee while working at her register.
—New York Times, 16 May 2022
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Instead, a great manager will get the most out of the team by putting everybody in a place to leverage their skills.
—Jesse Haynes, Forbes, 4 May 2022
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Britt served as Shelby's top aide in the Senate, his chief of staff, and his campaign manager.
—Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 13 June 2022
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The general manager had room to make one big move and chose Rodrigues as his guy.
—David Wilson, Miami Herald, 11 June 2024
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The fact is, reputation travels, and so does word-of-mouth among managers.
—Ebony Flake, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
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For now, Beardsley and Frances Brown, who will be the cafe’s manager, are spitballing ideas.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
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Even those managers who just want their now-remote workers to show up at the office a few days a week are often forced to back down.
—Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
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So Guerra, in search of his first win as Rising manager, paced the touchline.
—Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
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People in England — players, managers, fans, media —need to be less sniffy about the under-21s.
—Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
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Braves manager Brian Snitker said that leadership and experience were reasons the Braves added León, though not the main one.
—David O'Brien, New York Times, 22 July 2025
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Plus, the prices that consumers pay are largely governed by the nation’s complex health system, which includes manufacturers, insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, known as PBMs.
—Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2025
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