How to Use one-man in a Sentence

one-man

adjective

• The 26-year-old Clase was in some ways a one-man bullpen.
  — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• The plan is to bring my one-man show to the U.K. sometime next year.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
• The one-man sit-in mushroomed in the weeks after the attacks.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Might be time to run plays away from the one-man wrecking ball.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2024
• Face it, in some ways lately, he’s been a one-man team.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• The size of the structures range from one-man shelters up to 24 people.
  — Brett French, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Talk about your one-man show that began to turn things around.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• The series is an adaptation of Gadd’s one-man stage show of the same name.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 25 June 2024
• Kiser likes to wear them tight enough that removing them isn’t a one-man job.
  — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
• Those two specials played like one-man, off-Broadway shows, or an evening at The Moth.
  — Will Digravio, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
• Robertson was not a one-man show, but definitely the star of the Bearcat team.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2024
• Who’s the lawyer who is on a one-man mission to block green energy projects across Ohio?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• Something about the songs called out for more than a one-man, one-mic recording approach.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
• Duff Goldman will be serving up laughs and sweet treats with a one-man show and dessert party.
  — Erin Clements, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
• Thorpe rushes, returns kicks and does all the kicking in putting on a one-man show.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Her dad and uncle even raced together, with a one-man pit crew, her dad.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2023
• Screen it in a one-man space pod after an excellent night’s sleep.
  — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
• Included in that is the start of a return to his one-man show and stand-up comedy roots.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
• He’s been an in-demand actor and speaker and still performs a one-man show at least 40 times a year.
  — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Butler came through with 28 points but Miami isn’t a one-man show.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2023
• While the lineup around him has gone cold recently, Ohtani has turned into a one-man Sho.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 22 Sep. 2024
• So, Hay decided to set about finding his own audience and take the one-man show honed at Largo on the road.
  — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2024
• But Williams, who returned to Auburn as the team’s running back coach in 2019, wasn’t a one-man show during his playing days at Auburn.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• Laughlin sent the reporter to Europe, with a dream job as a one-man foreign bureau.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024
• Other members turned to Glen Allen, a lawyer who has emerged as a kind of one-man far-right legal-defense team.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
• The one-man show is written and performed by Edelman and was directed by Brace.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
• Here was a new kind of Holocaust movie: the death-camp drama as existential one-man odyssey.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The performance led to more success for Gadd who then wrote his one-man play, Baby Reindeer in 2019.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2024
• Somewhere in Brooklyn, below where a family of four sleeps, a basement bunker is the home to a one-man jam session almost every night for six months of the year.
  — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
• He’s dominated as a one-man offensive show for a meek Canucks attack, scoring the most points-per-game of all defenceman in the NHL.
  — Harman Dayal, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025