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.
  • Some managers don't even know who still works for them.
    Carmel Wroth, NPR, 5 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • At that point, Wakefield walked into the store and asked to speak to the manager.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • My phone pings with an email from our building manager down in the city.
    Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Cox had two separate stints as the Braves manager and a four-year stay with the Blue Jays.
    Matt Young, Chron, 3 May 2022
  • Bench coach Miguel Cairo will remain the acting manager for the rest of the season.
    Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The last three general managers who left the Red Sox have done pretty well.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Lamer works as the office manager and runs a free food bank at All Peoples Church.
    Joan Elovitz Kazan, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Team managers need to speak up and protect their riders.
    Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 9 May 2023
  • My managers came for an hour visit once and wound up staying all day.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 May 2025
  • My managers took the threat seriously as well, putting my wife and I up in a hotel.
    Chris Gloninger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
  • The new manager, who is white, had been shot in the knee while working at her register.
    New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • 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
  • Of course, the Red Sox hired Alex Cora as their manager after the 2017 season.
    Matt Young, Chron, 4 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The general manager had room to make one big move and chose Rodrigues as his guy.
    David Wilson, Miami Herald, 11 June 2024
  • The fact is, reputation travels, and so does word-of-mouth among managers.
    Ebony Flake, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
  • For now, Beardsley and Frances Brown, who will be the cafe’s manager, are spitballing ideas.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Capital is still flowing, and large asset managers continue to raise funds .
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The combine is usually where agents and general managers meet to lay the foundation for free-agent deals.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Royals manager Matt Quatraro could give Loftin more reps at first.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2026

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