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.
  • 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
  • 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 took the threat seriously as well, putting my wife and I up in a hotel.
    — Chris Gloninger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
  • 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
  • Even those managers who just want their now-remote workers to show up at the office a few days a week are often forced to back down.
    — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • People in England — players, managers, fans, media —need to be less sniffy about the under-21s.
    — Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • His manager, John McGraw, was always on the hefty catcher to lose weight.
    — Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Benji: No magic manager was going to come in and solve all the problems.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The National League’s oldest manager has a new spring in his step.
    — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Arteta isn’t the only manager to have come up with a ridiculous reason for his team not scoring in the EFL Cup.
    — Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Not a bad debut as a manager this season – 92 wins and the AL Central title.
    — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • That’s a positive for whitetail deer hunters and managers.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Most significant, though, was the presence of Egil Olsen, a manager derided as a dinosaur at the time but who looks, in hindsight, an awful lot like a pioneer.
    — Rory Smith, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • These traits sound appealing—what hiring manager wouldn’t want a driven employee?
    — Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025

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