Example sentences for: man--a

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

  • For some reason, Brooks and his co-writer, Monica Johnson, have made their protagonist an unbelievably uninteresting man--a mopey, scattershot hack.

  • Or last Sunday's New York Times Book Review , which concluded, "What is left is simply the man--a rebel who could not part with his dream, and who earned a place in history precisely because he refused to yield to it."

  • He is an unassuming man--a thatch of sandy hair, a pair of inquisitive brown eyes, a slight shadow of beard at all hours of the day.

  • Andre Schwartz-Bart's The Last of the Just (for example) is a far more moving evocation of the Holocaust than any account in any reference work, because it focuses on the experiences of one man--a man who, if he continues to deny his Jewishness, has a reasonable chance of escaping the death camps.

  • Paxon is the world's most replaceable man--a lightweight operator of fungible principles, not especially conservative, not especially moderate, and with no great or special political talent.


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