man of the world
Example Sentences
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“This one, it’s definitely like, ‘Title of fastest man of the world.
From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2023
For an Anglo-American child of the present day, what better spirit to hover above the cradle than the ultimate man of the world?
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2019
Anderson was a man of the world, speaking four languages fluently – English, French, German and Italian – a reflection of his life spent living in Europe, the United States and Canada.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2018
He’s a man of the world, of humanity, he says.
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017
Root was a notorious bon vivant, whom Louis Sullivan once described as “a man of the world, of the flesh, and considerably of the devil.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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