How to Use poster boy in a Sentence

poster boy

noun
  • In a cast of showmen, Mbappe remains the poster boy.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • But his legacy is tarnished as being one of the poster boys of the steroid era.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The poster boys for pace-and-space were suddenly clunky and crowded.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 23 May 2018
  • Maybe the league has cracked down on giving its poster boy so much benefit of the doubt.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Mamdani has made Griffin the poster boy for his tax-the-rich campaign.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Can Slot’s side also become the poster boys at the other end of the churn spectrum?
    — James Nalton, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Bonino is the poster boy for San Jose’s bottom-six struggles.
    — Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The fiddle leaf fig is the poster boy of plant-loving millennials.
    — Cam Wolf, GQ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The poster boy for their culture is Lil Mabu, the son of a record label owner.
    — Heshel Rolnick, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Then came what promised to be the defining moment of the poster boy's career - a home World Cup.
    — SI.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Sheppard, in particular, has been a poster boy for some of the Rockets’ pain points.
    — Sam Amick, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • Mark Cuban should not be the face, the poster boy, for the Democratic Party.
    — Hady Mawajdeh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Penn’s Jeff Spicoli is the poster boy for this trailblazing spirit.
    — Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • In many ways, Platner is the modern Democrat party’s poster boy.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026
  • Osbourne called out Prince Harry as the poster boy for White privilege.
    — Dana Brownlee, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • But of course, Guadagnino himself isn’t attached to the Bond franchise, just its most recent poster boy.
    — Samantha Riedel, Them, 4 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Expect Luka Doncic to be a poster boy for Jordan Brand for years to come.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The acquisitions of Belinelli and Ilyasova are the poster boys for that.
    — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The sound effects team hasn't entirely neglected the franchise's acid-blooded poster boys, either.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In the years following his arrival, Salah quickly became the poster boy of the Reds’ most recent golden era.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Campbell also becomes a new poster boy for the ambitions of Reform UK.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 2 May 2025

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