Everyman
Example Sentences
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Berenger, a character who appears in different guises in several of his plays, is Ionesco’s version of Everyman.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
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
Other previous winners of the prize - first presented in 1996 - include Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, Hastings Pier and the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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
