How to Use family man in a Sentence

family man

noun
  • For the salt-of-the-earth, tough-yet-tender family man who leads the gang?
    Rebecca Pahle, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Terrance is a Chicago bus driver and the oldest in the group, a family man who's a big fan of the show.
    Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 7 July 2022
  • This is the tale of a family man who wants a better life for his nearest and dearest.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Apr. 2022
  • This film deals with a family man who is forced to land a small plane after the pilot dies mid-flight.
    Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Luke Grimes is known as family man and livestock agent Kayce Dutton on the hit show.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 24 July 2022
  • But what is clear is that the financial pressures on the family man were great.
    Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • Autumn hopes to meet a loyal, fun family man and has her fingers crossed that Joey is the one for her.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • How could a friendly family man have kept a secret like this for more than 50 years?
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The loving family man spends time with his kids, bonds with his teammates, and has his trust in the team put to the test when his wife's law firm is held hostage.
    Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Like top-of-the-line sports equipment, outdoorsy, and fitness gear for the active family man.
    Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2022
  • President Biden is a family man, in more ways than one.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Bieber has proven to be a family man in the past, and even hinted at starting a family of his own with Baldwin.
    Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Elliot is a sweetie pie, a family man who takes the concept of being a lover-not-a-fighter to the extreme.
    Adrienne Matei, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Out of the ring, Fritz is a deeply conservative family man who raises his clan like something out of the 1950s.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
  • While his are some of the most impressive stats in the league, Curry has also made headlines as a family man.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Known as a family man, Birchall now has five children of his own and stood out at one point for bringing his young son to the office.
    David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022
  • Gary Moeller was a great family man, great friend, great coach, and a man of integrity and high character.
    Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2022
  • Pissarro, by then a family man with three kids, used the money from selling his art to pay the grocer.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • There’s Douglass the public figure, and then there’s Douglass the family man.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Zahn happens to be a Native American with the same moral code of anybody good who’s a family man.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But Lowry noted that Parades was first and foremost a family man.
    Richard Wintonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
  • His focus is on family and learning how to be a solid friend and family man, the father of three said.
    Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Zuckerberg is also a family man and aims to do bedtime with his kids every night.
    Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The family man who once had bragged to friends and colleagues about his wife and kids began changing his social media posts, too.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Scrappy, working-class family man beats the odds and prevails.
    Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Stephanie Thompson, Davis’s sister, said her brother was a family man and a hard worker.
    Alex Putterman, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Gottfried’s version of the joke was one of the filthiest in the movie, topped only by Saget because people still pictured him at the time as the family man from Full House.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Jim Trotter is a friend, a colleague, a man unafraid, a man of convictions, a family man, and a beacon of Black pride who has pushed on through the headwinds.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • If Douglas represented the imperiled family man of the 1980s, Affleck is the shell of that man.
    New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Public outcry ensued; the main tenor of the criticism was that Usher, at 28, was still too young to become a family man.
    Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023

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