How to Use front man in a Sentence

front man

noun
  • Certain front men may not want to cede power to someone else.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • On the album, the trumpeter levels up as a singer and front man.
    — Mark Yarm, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Matthew is the front man, taking care of customers, while his father stays in the kitchen and cooks.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
  • As a boy, their front man and leader had dreamed of baseball stardom rather than rock ’n’ roll fame.
    — oregonlive.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • But right now, Kelly is the front man, the guy everybody knows.
    — Eric Hansen, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2021
  • For the front man of the 1975, fame is its own kind of performance.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • My personality is not to get on stage and talk to people, to be the front man.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 21 Oct. 2024
  • In those days, he was known as a center forward, now called a striker, the goal-scoring front man.
    — Phil Davison, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • Putin’s front men have been blunt about wiping out any remnants of Ukraine-ness from that country.
    — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The Cure front man sat in the front row, surrounded by family and friends.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Kevin Cronin joined the band, left and returned in 1976 to be the group’s front man.
    — Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Santos is the former front man for the band Aventura.
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But, typical of the contemplative front man, there’s more to it than that.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The 53-year-old Rossdale is the front man and guitarist for the rock band Bush.
    — Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Wavves front man Nathan Williams blew up in the indie rock world in his very early 20s.
    — Miles Raymer, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2015
  • Could this be the year that the explosive front man finally earns his first England cap?
    — SI.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • My mom was the chef, dishwasher and prep cook, and my dad was the front man, the face, the server and everything else.
    — Christian Reynoso, SFChronicle.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Good luck trying to put a spin on the front man attacking the guitarist on a stage in front of thousands of people.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Rob Thomas has been the front man for Matchbox Twenty for 30 years.
    — Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 25 July 2025
  • In turn, Pompeo, who is also closer to Trump, has become the front man.
    — TheWeek, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The set started off slow, with both a soft vocal mix that buried Wilson’s lyrics at the start, and what seemed like a shy front man.
    — Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022
  • The church’s current pastor is a former actor, the son and grandson of actors and was once front man for a punk rock band.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
  • The 2018 film chronicles the rise of the band Queen and its iconic front man.
    — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
  • There was the odd moment of promise involving Wrexham’s front men.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Their departures render Montas, 29, the clear front man of a raw unit.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2022
  • That is testament to the quality of shots attempted by the Palace front man.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Rick Astley is waiting for the papal conclave to crown him as the next front man.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Their front man, Jeff Berding, might as well change his first name to Santa and ditch the navy blue suit for a red one.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Raiders’ owner Mark Davis needs Gruden as a front man when the team hits Vegas.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • For many years, Larijani was seen as the bookish front man for the regime, a counterpoint to his more fiery colleagues.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 17 Mar. 2026

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