How to Use to a man in a Sentence
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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
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Her voice gave way to a man counting down, and then a nuclear blast filled the screen.
—Monique Mitchell Turner, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026
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In some cases, witnesses saw the women talking to a man who was wearing an arm sling.
—ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
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Cameron Brink is White, blonde, engaged to a man, and looks like a supermodel.
—Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The son of former president Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation over ties to a banker accused of financial misconduct and to a man suspected of money laundering.
—Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2026
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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
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Participants respond to a man yelling from his car during a No Kings rally in Valparaiso on Saturday, October 17, 2026.
—Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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