How to Use superman in a Sentence

superman

noun
  • Flowers, origami cranes, and a superman doll were among the items left on the ground below their names.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The superman hold exercise is an excellent one to place at the top of any workout.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
  • The superman logo also appears in on the bedspread for a plush round bed upstairs.
    — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Davis connects with a hard superman punch and then follows with another punch behind it.
    — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 24 June 2017
  • Jackson’s fourth-quarter feats were the stuff of legend, part Willis Reed, part superman.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • For example, that everyone will wish to have children who are Nordic superman and the like.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2011
  • As far as the theories of Nordic superman, that sort of racial triumphalism went out of favor with the Nazis.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
  • Huff led them into a series of poses, from the tree pose to the superman pose, where the men lay on their mats with their arms stretched forward and legs lifted in the back.
    — Johnny Diaz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The astronaut mold was supposed to produce infallible supermen full of the right stuff.
    — David Whitley, orlandosentinel.com, 10 May 2019
  • Greaney has shaped Court as a kind of superman, able to get out of seemingly impossible danger.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
  • At 74, Max Weinberg hasn’t lost a drop of his superman stamina, but not even Bruce knows his secret.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The neighborhoods desperately need a superman or a mayor who knows how to deliver like a superhero in words and in deeds.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 14 May 2017
  • Lionel Messi tried his luck early on with a curling free-kick in the ninth minute but Jaume Domenech cleared it away with a superman punch.
    — SI.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • His series pondered America’s love for supermen who fought crime, defeated bad guys, and always lived on the right side of justice.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • In other words, these researchers found, Babe Ruth was basically a hitting superman.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
  • All the bloodshed served no real political purpose; its ultimate virtue lay in making men into supermen.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The superman exercise is one of those effective bodyweight moves that works practically every single muscle in the body.
    — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Police said Kirk was last seen wearing jeans, a black button up shirt, a grey hoodie, a blue and maroon superman hoodie and tan Timberland-like boots.
    — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Some of your upper-body exercises in today's workout—namely the superman with arm pulldown and the forearm plank reach—are also great for core engagement.
    — Amy Eisinger, M.a., SELF, 31 Dec. 2019
  • For something more active in the mountains, hiking and cycling are popular, along with the world's longest zip line, superman style, a series of six ziplines, and the sledder.
    — Michele Robson, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Daylight, as he is referred to throughout the story, has been in Alaska since the late 1880s and is known as a superman among supermen.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2020
  • With expressive brushwork, the muscular superman’s dynamic thrust, magnified by the serpentine twirl of his crimson cloak, is paired with the flying fur on the fearsome boar’s snarling head.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Brian started out as a nerdy college kid with a passion for science, and eventually was developed into a strapping blond superman by artist Alan Davis.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 July 2022
  • General modern histories find pestilence and disease rather dull when compared to national supermen, which are most often military generals.
    — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Our prayers and good wishes continue to go out to all those superwomen and supermen in our community right now who are doing it all to support and protect their families during this unprecedented time.
    — Charli Penn, Essence, 3 Apr. 2020
  • This game is likely to feature both Joe Burrow finding his favorite wide receiver targets and Josh Allen playing superman running down the field.
    — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Posted recently, the video shows the M1 robot performing a standing backflip and almost carrying out a perfect superman landing in a single take.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Float in a superman pose above the world’s largest brain coral (16 feet in diameter) in the waters off Speyside, with Tobago Dive Experience.
    — Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
  • To massively simplify, Nietzsche’s concept of the superman was that technology would allow humans to determine their own fate as the machine would take the place that God had enjoyed before.
    — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The Power and the Glory (1933) embodied the hankering for a superman in title, sentiment, and central character.
    — Thomas Doherty, Slate Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017

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