How to Use the next man/person in a Sentence

the next man/person

noun
Definition of the next man/personnext
  • In the room, talk turned to preparing the table for the next man.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
  • Tonges, not Latu, is the next man up if someone goes down.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • And there’s a little gap between me and the next person.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Some lay down for a minute before hopping up to give the next person a glimpse.
    — K.c. Alfred, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
  • My question: Who will be the next person to go into the Ring of Honor?
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Anunoby may not be able to play, but the Knicks believe — even if others don’t — the next man will step up and fill the void.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
  • His job was to transfer boxes from the truck onto the line, then push them to the next person, who scanned them.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The 6-foot-10 junior had only started one game in his career but was the next man up, called on to keep the ship afloat.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2024
  • As each one was escorted out, then the next person would stand up.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
  • If Strange is not ready, rookie Atonio Mafi likely would be the next man up.
    — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Then the next person will get you from South America to the south of Mexico.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Elias didn’t say one way or the other when asked at the end of camp whether Holliday would be the next man up on the infield.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2024
  • What one person wants or needs to feel safe may be different from the next person.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The faintings were so frequent that Bergonzi sometimes stepped over people, collapsed on the floor, to reach the next person.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The person who starts the order puts the meats and bread on tray and hands it to the next person who does condiments, while another does the wrapping.
    — Laura Ness, The Mercury News, 15 July 2024
  • The rules are the same as the movie: pick a category, sing a song that fits it, and the next person/team must start their song with the same word that the last person/team sang.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 8 Apr. 2023
  • That's because she and the next person on our list were not selected for teams on a day 2 schoolyard pick 'em.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • These stages may impact you more or less intensely than the next person.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The page asks travelers to update the journal before passing it along to the next person who finds it.
    — Sydney Bishop, CNN, 29 June 2024
  • Radio in hand, Steven Rustemeyer ushers the next person aboard the bus.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Braswell and Threadgill added just two points, and Reiber was the next man up on Saturday due to Jackson’s foul trouble.
    — Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 2 Mar. 2024
  • One wall is covered with meal tickets that customers have already paid for, hoping to help the next person in need.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2024
  • After their time is up, cabin crew will have thirty minutes to change the sheets and clean the pods, before the next person can crawl inside.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Once on the surface, the first woman and the next man to walk on the moon will use new spacesuits designed by Axiom Space as a commercial venture.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There could be money issues, there could be somebody that dies [while making] the picture, the studio changes heads and the next person hates it.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Holden grew frustrated and decided to rob the next person to walk past, the complaint states.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And so the next person to fill it would be qualified by civil-service standards.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
  • Wearing the perfect eyeliner isn’t going to make somebody like you more than the next person who doesn’t have it on.
    — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2024
  • For all their righteous fearlessness and kinetic daring, the Ford hero is, to quote a line from The Last Crusade, as human as the next man.
    — Vulture, 10 July 2023
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    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024

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