Example sentences for: everyman

How can you use “everyman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • New words for Everywoman and Everyman are proliferating, albeit with a qualitative difference.

  • As decision making has devolved from the autocrat to the ordinary citizen, it is the ordinary citizen--the anonymous Everyman, an embodiment of rights and responsibilities shared by all--whose name is increasingly invoked.

  • Either way, Brodkey embraces a self-absorption so extreme that it succeeds, paradoxically, in turning him into an Everyman:

  • (Most problematic: A fictitious manservant, supposed to be a sort of African-American Everyman, contemplates assassinating Wallace.)

  • Shock jock Howard Stern successfully transforms himself into a likable American Everyman.


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