How to Use to a man in a Sentence

to a man

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  • An unknown suspect broke the window to a man’s work truck and stole his tools.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Cameron Brink is White, blonde, engaged to a man, and looks like a supermodel.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
  • To be consumed by shame while growing up from a boy to a man, but not really being able to grow up — there’s a stuntedness.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
  • She had been married to a man beforehand, and had begun a career as an artist and a filmmaker during her union.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Michelle Saniei, without being shackled to a man, has come into her own and managed to pop out from a crowded field.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2026
  • An unplayable Messi whizzed by his United markers on his way to a man-of-the-match performance.
    — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 7 July 2026
  • Instead, Chicago police were called to Wrigley Field and found paramedics attending to a man with a nosebleed.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Two Yavapai County deputies responded to a man who was bitten by a rattlesnake at a remote campsite.
    — Christian Cervantes, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • First, police say, the suspect went up to a man just leaving the subway with his wife and waiting to cross the street, stabbing the 68-year-old in his abdomen.
    — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The men purchased blankets and slept in a park for two nights, waking up during the final night to a man attempting to pick McGuire’s pocket.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The victim spoke to a man who offered her $300 to watch his children for the night and ordered her a ride-share car to a Clarkston apartment complex.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Manic Muse, a DJ and music producer in Texas, gave her number to a man who approached her in a grocery store.
    — Ashlee Difuntorum, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • One of those scams involved an elderly resident handing roughly $420,000 in gold to a man that showed up on their driveway.
    — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • Given the green light, investigators found the DNA profile from the crime scene was a close match to a man named Mark Mitcham.
    — Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • This wasn’t all attributable to a man who left the building right when the sun started cutting through the sheet of clouds – thanks, Obama – but the vibes suited that man’s appearance, and vice-versa.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • The study did not find that adding a serving of beans to a man’s diet will cut his future cardiovascular risk by 72%, or that eating broccoli will slash a woman’s risk by 85%.
    — Paul McClure 23, New Atlas, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The female figures of the Three Graces represent the literal gift of a woman giving her virginal body to a man as property bestowed upon a new owner.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
  • She’s played by Sofia Boutella in another one of the Schrader women roles who exists only as a prism to refract male anxieties, a foil to a man’s moral quandaries.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Nolan felt the actor, who is now 30 but often gets cast as much younger characters, brought the mixture of innocence and maturity required for someone who grows emotionally from a boy to a man over the course of the story.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 July 2026
  • Surveillance footage eventually led investigators to a man who has since confessed to transporting Ross’ body in the suitcase, Greek police said, according to the outlet.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026
  • When Rodriguez got married in 2010 to a man named James, in a ceremony officiated by Tuck, Ortiz was there.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
  • That year, the AAU gave a 2012 leadership award to a man named Rick Butler, one of the country’s most prominent girls’ volleyball coaches at the time.
    — Molly Hensley-Clancy, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The mural includes symbols from the periodic table of elements, and representations of Sir Isaac Newton, scientific equations and evolution — from fish to four-legged mammals to a man carrying a briefcase.
    — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
  • One witness told the Tribune on Monday afternoon that police appeared to be repeatedly calling out to a man who lives in the building that was targeted by the SWAT response, asking him to drop a rifle out of a window.
    — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The vignettes range from aliens crashing a slumber party to a man suffering a rogue ocular transplant, but the finest segments come courtesy of original Blair Witch Project director Eduardo Sánchez and The Raid (2011) filmmaker Gareth Evans.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
  • Sacramento State’s team, to a man, understands who and what is invading Hornet Stadium on Saturday night on ESPN, a thundering herd of buffalo rooted in tradition in the form of the North Dakota State Bison.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • José Luis Rebordinos’s Swan Song When Rebordinos appeared on stage this July at Madrid’s Academia de Cine to present San Sebastian’s Spanish titles, the industry-press audience got to its feet to a man and woman to deliver him a standing ovation.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

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