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.
  • Project managers help keep work on track, on time and on budget.
    Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 19 June 2026
  • The crisis, then, isn’t just about bad managers.
    Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe more than just this manager.
    Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Matthews is in the process of hiring a new town manager.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This is why your manager at work always looks so stressed out.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • My managers came for an hour visit once and wound up staying all day.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 May 2025
  • My phone pings with an email from our building manager down in the city.
    Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
  • This allows course managers to tweak how a hole plays every day.
    Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And then the manager told them something that blew their minds.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Kaplan, who worked as a brand manager, said the call shocked him.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Even the managers can recognize when a game drags.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Work with your manager on a concrete plan.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Emery has always been a manager to raise the floor of players.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The manager claims that Chrisley then slapped him in the face two times.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • There was only one out in the third inning, but the manager had seen enough.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But the team and the manager won’t dwell on the decision.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Three managers in the space of less than two months is not the recipe for stability.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • What are those team managers doing with our bucks, padding their kids’ college funds?
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • But the Padres’ rookie manager did tell us.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The time a manager locked the front door at a sprint lest a tour bus swamp us a minute before closing.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, United has, of course, changed its manager.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • That is why password managers exist.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • Calvin complained to the building manager to no avail.
    Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026

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