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.
  • The hits keep comin’ for The Roots main men.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Ford, a senior who plays both point and off guard, will be their main man.
    — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Ronaldo will be the main man in Italy, and not just on his team.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
  • 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
  • Congrats to all of them and, of course to my main man Sebastian Stan!
    — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Rosario remains the main man in left after regaining his batting stroke.
    — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Our mainstage main man Tiësto is taking himself on, via a flurry of edits of his own tracks.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Alexis Sanchez - back in his Arsenal days - was the main man on this occasion.
    — SI.com, 28 Sep. 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
  • Bravo’s main man bids adieu to what may have been the twenty-twentiest 2020 ever.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Crucially for England, their main man, Harry Kane, got off the mark scoring twice.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • 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
  • If that plan works, Ogbah’s the main man the Patriots need to protect the rookie quarterback from.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In effect, Modi had gone from being America’s main man to playing third banana at China’s banquet.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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 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
  • Amazon put the four main men — Kalyn, Belmont Cameli, Cipriano and Jalen Thomas Brooks — through a two-week hockey bootcamp.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2026
  • Andy Green is set to be the Mets’ main man for the remainder of the season, tapped as the interim manager following Friday’s firing of Carlos Mendoza.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 26 June 2026

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