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

On Sunday at the Everyman theatre in nearby Cheltenham, she was in conversation with broadcaster Richard Bacon, who asked whether reports that she moved because of Donald Trump were correct.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025

That colors Ben as the quintessential 2025 American Everyman – he’s non-judgmental, not entirely immune to disinformation, but also questions behavior and developments that might have been plausible a decade ago.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

Charles the Fifth had no less than nine hundred and ten volumes, so that his personal collection was about as big as the Everyman Library is today.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White