How to Use leading man in a Sentence

leading man

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  • As is the wont of a leading man, Kelce played a pivotal role.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
  • This was a big deal for the leading man that sent shockwaves through the set.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
  • So, yes, teams are erring on the side of caution with leading men.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • In the nearly three-minute clip, Spears reads lines with the film’s leading man Ryan Gosling.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
  • With Lasso's shine fading, The Bear's leading man is the one to beat.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Among its charms is a scene in which the leading man appears to float through a room.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Collin Sexton still has a lot of work to do as a leading man.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2022
  • It’s the rhythm of a leading man, going somewhere and nowhere fast.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
  • But at the end of season 3, Benedict doesn't seem to be ready to be the leading man quite yet.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 13 June 2024
  • But at the end of season 3, Benedict doesn’t seem to be ready to be the leading man quite yet.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 July 2024
  • But for all the film's success, leading man Ryan Gosling would like a do-over.
    — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 2 May 2024
  • Roundtree was a leading man from the very start of his lifetime in screen acting.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • And that always is a tough call, about whether to put a struggling leading man back in the game.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Zach Shallcross, 26, is the new leading man on the 27th season of The Bachelor.
    — Women's Health, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Any sign of Kim’s new leading man this early in the season?
    — Vogue, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Superman has a new leading man … and a new outfit of the day.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 6 May 2024
  • De La Hoya, on the other hand, would have been a leading man in anyone’s book.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Levy has found his leading man, and Reynolds his secret weapon.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • My Policeman marks the second of two films in which Styles has played the leading man this year.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2022
  • One reminder from the night was that West still was the leading man in this production.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • Lowe, who played a supporting role in 2017, will return to the show at Mad Cow as the leading man.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Without its leading man at full strength, the show still went on in March Madness.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The best thing that happened to me was Robert Aldrich, the director, who said, ‘Don’t be a leading man, kid.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The leading men of the show traded their donkey and horse for a paletero cart and a big wheel bike with a horse skull attached.
    — Luis G. Rendon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Joe Alwyn is the rare leading man who manages to steer his path just out of the blinding glare of fame.
    — Harry Carr, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The film in question is I.T., which wasn’t much of a blockbuster, despite its A-list leading man.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2021
  • But this is a league about stars, and in the playoffs, nobody matters more than your leading man.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Pitt's not the only leading man to step out in a skirt recently.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 July 2022
  • Plus, there was not—nor has there been since—a hotter, more earnest leading man than Tom Welling as Clark Kent.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Blue's Clues first premiered on Nickelodeon in 1996, starring Burns as leading man Steve.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024

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