Everyman

Example Sentences

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After a loss, the grieving Everyman finds no option but to keep living—he is, as one character says, “just waiting to see what we’ve been left here for.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Mike Judge and Greg Daniels built their two-dimensional Texas Everyman to ensure we could never quite be certain.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2025

A petition to save CPIFF, which also shows films at the Everyman Cinema in Crystal Palace, has already attracted more than 1,500 signatures.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025

Lewis belonged to a class of young stand-ups, like Seinfeld and Bill Maher, who were influenced by the acerbic Everyman persona of Robert Klein.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

Downtrodden Americans gravitated strongly toward the Horatio Alger protagonist, the lowly bred Everyman who rises from anonymity and hopelessness.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand