How to Use adman in a Sentence

adman

noun

• The Wachowskis, who wrote and produced the film, and adman Jim McTeigue, who directs, throw all kinds of icons and chewy concepts into their pot.
  — Jason Silverman, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2006
• Joe Johnston, a Tulsa author and artist, was a Cleveland adman in the early 1970s.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
• An adman and an adwoman fight over a dummy account and wind up in bed together.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• Founded in 1993 by a former British adman, the firm has worked for companies and candidates around the world, as well as for government and military clients.
  — Nicholas Confessore and Danny Hakim, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2017
• The film starred Cary Grant as a New York adman accidentally ensnared in an international spy ring.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 16 July 2017
• But the style of the illustration, done by 75-year-old Brian Sanders, one of series creator Matthew Weiner's real-life adman inspirations, is perfect.
  — Paul Schrodt, Esquire, 12 Mar. 2013
• Among his biggest triumphs as an adman was the marketing of the tranquilizers Librium and Valium, beginning in the 1960s.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• In the title story, adman Bill Whitman — note the surname — dishes a contemplative collage of ex-wives and ex-friends, a resigned and almost free-associative appraisal of his shambled past.
  — William Giraldi, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• Running United Fruit’s publicity department, in New York, was a legendary adman who claimed to have a list of twenty-five thousand journalists, editors, and public figures at his beck and call.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
• Eventually, foppish men hawking ideas rather than wares would lay the same claim to the American individualist spirit: the adman as noble as the oilman, the programmer no different from the prospector.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
• As was Mad Men, but its admen and -women were shown as far more prone to unconscious urges, petty vanities, pockets of soul sickness, whereas nearly everyone on Suits relies on executive function and Sherlock deduction.
  — James Wolcott, HWD, 27 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024