How to Use leading man in a Sentence

leading man

noun

• As is the wont of a leading man, Kelce played a pivotal role.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• So, yes, teams are erring on the side of caution with leading men.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• In the nearly three-minute clip, Spears reads lines with the film’s leading man Ryan Gosling.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
• With Lasso's shine fading, The Bear's leading man is the one to beat.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2024
• Roundtree was a leading man from the very start of his lifetime in screen acting.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• Zach Shallcross, 26, is the new leading man on the 27th season of The Bachelor.
  — Women's Health, 23 Jan. 2023
• My Policeman marks the second of two films in which Styles has played the leading man this year.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2022
• Without its leading man at full strength, the show still went on in March Madness.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 18 Mar. 2023
• The leading men of the show traded their donkey and horse for a paletero cart and a big wheel bike with a horse skull attached.
  — Luis G. Rendon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• Pitt's not the only leading man to step out in a skirt recently.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 July 2022
• The movie now marks Johnson’s biggest box office opener in the U.S. as a leading man.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 Oct. 2022
• The average age of an action-movie leading man, so far this year.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 2 July 2023
• Instead, the story — which involves the death of the leading man on the opening night of a new Broadway show — breathes new life into the show.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2023
• Not a frame of this film is set in Japan; Nolan relies on his leading man to suffer the fallout in spirit.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• But as any John Wick fan could tell you, the appeal of John Wick has never been solely about its leading man.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023
• The play launched her career and her love life: the show's leading man, Elliott Gould, became Streisand's first husband.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2024
• The 2024 leading man has been announced and fans will recognize him from a past season.
  — The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
• She's posted adorable snaps of their family over the years as well as plenty of praise for her leading man.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2023
• Kinky Boots' achilles heel has always been its leading man, Charlie Price.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 July 2022
• And Khan remains its singing, dancing and gun-toting leading man.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• As for proving his bona fides as a romantic leading man?
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• In his absence, Brazil seemed bereft, adrift, unable to conceive of how to win the game without its leading man, the player to whom the team, as much as the country, was in thrall.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• All of which has had Bam Adebayo going back to school amid his growth into a leading man for the Miami Heat.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022
• The first trick, of course, is casting Damon, Hollywood mega-star and perennial leading man, as the hero.
  — Noah Berlatsky, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
• The patient-slash-leading man knew exactly what was going on.
  — Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• Everclear, and leading man Art Alexakis, are some of the things that put Portland on the map in the ‘90s as a foundry of alternative culture.
  — oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2022
• That has endured and been extended to creative minds across the pond such as Woody Allen or Quentin Tarantino, as well as films’ leading men.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024
• But, to paraphrase a quote oft said by longtime Bouba leading man Kyle Chandler: Kind eyes.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 24 June 2023
• Even when there’s more than one leading man at the center of a story, a hierarchy is presumed.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
• Jordan Poole begins his takeover as the Golden State Warriors’ leading man?
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024