man's man
Example Sentences
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His unnamed, unrefined spy who liked to cook was in stark relief to the suave man’s man that was James Bond and an uncomfortable sight for some of the producers of the film adaptation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Sting called Moss “an elder brother, a wise head, a man’s man and a mensch.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023
As "Hemingway" explains, "The world saw him as a man's man, but all his life he would privately be intrigued by the blurred lines between male and female, men and women."
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2021
There’s Rafter in 2001, proving a man’s man again after lurking two points from defeat against Andre Agassi in a towering semifinal.
From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2020
Ray Veech, a man’s man, who spent his life under cars with grease up to his elbows.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
