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Example sentences for: man--but

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

(The girl is so much like a fourth-rate porn actress that the audience assumes she was hired to help the boy become a man--but the punch line never comes.)
It may be that Hastert will be thoroughly independent of DeLay--Hastert's allies assure doubters that he is his own man--but what if he's not?
A young black man is more likely to be a mugger than a young white man--but the assumption that any particular young black man is a mugger will usually be wrong.