How to Use main man in a Sentence

main man

noun

• He's still her main man.
• The team has many good players, but he is clearly the main man.
• Ronaldo will be the main man in Italy, and not just on his team.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
• Dusan Tadic has been Ajax's main man in the group stages.
  — SI.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• For Rogers, even if the Giants don’t use the term, clearly there is one main man in the ninth.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2022
• Ford, a senior who plays both point and off guard, will be their main man.
  — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• The Men win, while my main man, the legendary Bengal Boy, blows them off for a bike ride.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• Pärt has been my main man for 10 years now and his whole body of work seems written in service to the world.
  — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
• And Jordan Clarkson was the main man in the turnaround, going from scoring five in the first half to 25 in the second.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2021
• For at least the next few weeks, Fotu will be the main man in the middle on Arizona’s defensive line, doing all the dirty work.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
• There Xherden Shaqiri continues to be the main man for Switzerland, sending a ball across goal that three Swiss can’t seem to get to.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• But most of the real work came from his DJ, drummer, bassist, and keyboardist, while the main man stretched his cannabis charisma over a skeleton of rhymes.
  — Jon M. Gilbertson, Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2022
• Losing Harry Maguire was a blow, but the Northern Irishman is more than likely to take that in his stride and become the main man.
  — SI.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• Jesus, the main man, the leader, gets up from the table, takes off his outer garment and picks up a basin of water and a towel.
  — The Rev. Dr. Wm. Louis "lou" Piel, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 27 Mar. 2021
• RB Derek McClintic is the main man with 193 yards total offense.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2021
• Alexis Sanchez - back in his Arsenal days - was the main man on this occasion.
  — SI.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• If that plan works, Ogbah’s the main man the Patriots need to protect the rookie quarterback from.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• Bravo’s main man bids adieu to what may have been the twenty-twentiest 2020 ever.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• Patrick Mayfield will be the main man for Burlington Central next season, and the Rockets got a glimpse of life with and without him in recent weeks.
  — Paul Johnson, Elgin Courier-News, 21 June 2018
• With Graham as the team’s veteran leader, Newman wasn’t going to be cast as the main man for these Jayhawks.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
• Then there’s D’Antoni’s main man, James Harden, who has often looked fatigued during the playoff grind.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 5 June 2020
• Rosario remains the main man in left after regaining his batting stroke.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Adam Granduciel, the main man behind the War on Drugs, is a decent songwriter, a passable singer, and a good musician.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2021
• With the introduction of Liverpool's Egyptian King, Mane is no longer considered the main man, but is a threat in a new sense.
  — SI.com, 6 June 2018
• Our mainstage main man Tiësto is taking himself on, via a flurry of edits of his own tracks.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2022
• Our main man, Julian Kaye (Jon Bernthal), has not committed one selfish act in his sad life.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• But the main man in the Nativity scene nearest you (since Jesus there is but a baby, albeit Divine).
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 21 Dec. 2020
• Ree stresses that Marlboro Man is the main man behind this particular project.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 24 Jan. 2018
• The best opportunity of the second half arguably came to Brazil's main man after 70 minutes.
  — SI.com, 22 June 2018
• The main man starring in this movie is an incredible and funny amazing actor — a Canadian — Ryan Reynolds sent me a song.
  — Dan Wakeford, PEOPLE.com, 23 May 2018

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024