How to Use poster boy in a Sentence

poster boy

noun

• At 40, Nelson looks like a poster boy for the Air Force.
  — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 12 June 2021
• Kupp has become the poster boy for third-round draft picks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• But his legacy is tarnished as being one of the poster boys of the steroid era.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 16 Feb. 2018
• Then came what promised to be the defining moment of the poster boy's career - a home World Cup.
  — SI.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The poster boys for pace-and-space were suddenly clunky and crowded.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 23 May 2018
• Hui Ka Yan was the poster boy for behavior of that latter sort.
  — Clay Chandler and grady McGregor, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021
• To be fair, Roosevelt is not yet a poster boy for the nationalist right.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2019
• Bonino is the poster boy for San Jose’s bottom-six struggles.
  — Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Nov. 2021
• With the tragic death of highly promising star-in-the-making Lil Peep last month, Pump is now the poster boy for the surging scene.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017
• Ryan -- played by Michael Schoeffling -- kind of became a poster boy for the perfect crush among countless teens in the '80s who watched this film.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 31 May 2018
• The poster boy of the 1998 national team, and scorer of two goals in the final win over Brazil, was Zinedine Zidane.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 8 June 2018
• In 2018, the Nightcrawler star became Cartier’s first watch ambassador and the poster boy for the modern Santos.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Apr. 2023
• Foster’s words weren’t about progressive poster boy and state Sen. Daylin Leach.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• The fiddle leaf fig is the poster boy of plant-loving millennials.
  — Cam Wolf, GQ, 24 Oct. 2017
• The poster boy for their about one-week about face was Garoppolo, who was benched after halftime against the Dolphins.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• Osbourne called out Prince Harry as the poster boy for White privilege.
  — Dana Brownlee, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• The acquisitions of Belinelli and Ilyasova are the poster boys for that.
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Nicholson is the poster boy for why Buggs got into coaching.
  — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• The Danish tabloids seem keen to have the poster boy of Danish football playing for the European giant.
  — SI.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• The starring role in a drag-heavy Broadway musical may seem like an odd fit for a former emo-pop poster boy.
  — Chris Martins, Billboard, 15 June 2018
• The Orioles haven’t been their homer-happy selves this season, and first baseman Chris Davis might be the poster boy for the team’s power shortage.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 9 May 2018
• But, instead, because of his fame, Favre has become the poster boy for ripping off poor people in the poorest state in the country.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• Although Salah may be the poster boy for the Egyptian national team, their squad has a spine of impressive pedigree.
  — SI.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• That mangy Scar, with his freaky jowls and Ejiofor’s vicious vocals, is the new poster boy for brutality.
  — Brian Truitt, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2019
• Their roster is full of poster boys for good citizenship.
  — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
• The ordeal has made Better.com the poster boy for poor layoff conduct in a primarily remote world.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 2 June 2022
• Elon Musk, who moved to Texas last year for its laxer regulations, has become a poster boy of this movement.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
• But the rocker has become much more than an underground poster boy over his lengthy, sometimes fraught career.
  — Katherine Turman, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• The singer’s image as the poster boy for pre-Beatles pop stardom also led to him landing the starring role in the 1963 big-screen adaptation of Bye Bye Birdie.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2022
• Milo Yiannopoulos, onetime alt-right darling, is often held up as the poster boy for the strategy.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024