How to Use everyman in a Sentence

everyman

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  • Put some big points on the board for the everyman hero.
    — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Take away the bling and the braids and his appearance is everyman too.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Ruiz is a skilled, tough fighter in the package of an everyman.
    — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 5 June 2019
  • Melville wrote the book in 1857, on the brink of the Civil War, when the everyman made use of a loose, unchecked system of currency.
    — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • As the stoic everyman who must save the world, Willis is well-chosen.
    — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2019
  • So what does the banking turmoil mean for the everyman?
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • For starters, what attracts you to these down-on-their-luck everymen?
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The today Chris is a celebrity, and the before Chris, the Chris who is still coming up, is an everyman.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
  • His go-to—dark suit, jeans, and lace-up shoes—have served him well over the years, and helped him carve out a unique and easygoing everyman style.
    — Jake Woolf, GQ, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Fans embraced him as a sort of rock everyman who shunned the spotlight offstage.
    — Anne Steele, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • For Rei’s flock—from everymen and superstars alike—that says it all.
    — Adam Wray, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Only the rich get to drop out of society with everyman style.
    — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 6 May 2020
  • Malone's voice is a fragile everyman's voice, with a slight Texas twang.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • This year, Keanu has become a true everyman: an actor, and a meme, for all seasons.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
  • But inside all of us there’s an everyman who can face the greatest darkness.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 26 July 2024
  • As much of an everyman as someone who signed a two-year, $3.5 million deal could be, Tolzien is every bit of that.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Part of baseball’s charm is the everyman nature of its players.
    — Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Corey presents as an everyman with working class roots.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Amid the glut of uber-fancy restaurants, what are the standouts and what about the everyman and everywoman?
    — Amanda Faison, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Baseball barbers can’t give up their chairs or shops because it’s the everyman who pays their bills.
    — Kikue Higuchi, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Damon plays Gardner as a kind of quiet everyman, the type who goes unnoticed most of the time.
    — Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Kim-boy exists, in essence, as an everyman enduring the ups and downs of rural Alaskan life.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Whether his everyman persona can carry him far out of his state remains to be seen.
    — Tara Golshan, Vox, 26 June 2019
  • Barney, the everyman of the show, is a weirdo—but so is every other character.
    — Laura Zornosa, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Designed to hit high at the waist and drop straight down to the hem, these jeans are a closet staple because of their everyman silhouette.
    — Taylor Ayers, Marie Claire, 19 Apr. 2020
  • There's a touch of Hitchcock in Alan's everyman predicament, and more going on with Sam than initially meets the eye.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The team's everyman appeal is as strong as the players are accomplished.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 10 June 2017
  • History tells us that golf has ample room for the everyman.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2021
  • What Walz did do tonight is lock in from the jump as the Midwestern everyman and smoothed off his own crowd-pleasing rough edges at the cost of being on defense more than offense.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In many senses, Wong is a great everyman, even though many of the roles making up his nearly three-decade career derive from the fantastical.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2024

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