man of the world

Example Sentences

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“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

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

Lucas the producer, a man of the world, is a man of the word.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2016

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