How to Use adman in a Sentence

adman

noun
  • An adman and an adwoman fight over a dummy account and wind up in bed together.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Leopold Bloom, an adman, is avoiding his unfaithful wife and mourning a long-dead infant son.
    — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The Wachowskis, who wrote and produced the film, and adman Jim McTeigue, who directs, throw all kinds of icons and chewy concepts into their pot.
    — Jason Silverman, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2006
  • Joe Johnston, a Tulsa author and artist, was a Cleveland adman in the early 1970s.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
  • The film starred Cary Grant as a New York adman accidentally ensnared in an international spy ring.
    — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 16 July 2017
  • Founded in 1993 by a former British adman, the firm has worked for companies and candidates around the world, as well as for government and military clients.
    — Nicholas Confessore and Danny Hakim, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2017
  • D’Amico, 31, is a Chicago adman and longtime soccer enthusiast.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 1 July 2014
  • Among his biggest triumphs as an adman was the marketing of the tranquilizers Librium and Valium, beginning in the 1960s.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But the style of the illustration, done by 75-year-old Brian Sanders, one of series creator Matthew Weiner's real-life adman inspirations, is perfect.
    — Paul Schrodt, Esquire, 12 Mar. 2013
  • Running United Fruit’s publicity department, in New York, was a legendary adman who claimed to have a list of twenty-five thousand journalists, editors, and public figures at his beck and call.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
  • As was Mad Men, but its admen and -women were shown as far more prone to unconscious urges, petty vanities, pockets of soul sickness, whereas nearly everyone on Suits relies on executive function and Sherlock deduction.
    — James Wolcott, HWD, 27 Apr. 2018

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