man of the world
Example Sentences
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Back in the early 1980s, Moreno Ocampo wasn’t an urbane 70-year-old man of the world, but a young, very green attorney who’d never prosecuted a single case.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023
“He was becoming a man of the world as a young guy,” Colangelo said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Phoenix.
From New York Times • May 26, 2020
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
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
