Sentence examples for backup man from inspiring English sources

PAUL ALBERT SKRZYPEK The Backup Man Paul Albert Skrzypek was constantly in motion.

Fire officials said that for several minutes Mr. Gorumba worked as the backup man, but that at some point he left his post and went to sit in the fire engine.

But only the bigger movie has the room for deep background: the 1974 storming of the French Embassy in The Hague, say, by a unit of the Japanese Red Army, for which Carlos was merely a backup man, but which gives a clarifying sense of the many-headed, multilingual threat that was posed by extremists of the time.

Charlotte played without starting the forward Gerald Wallace (ankle) and center Nazr Mohammed (knee) the same day tests revealed that the backup big man DeSagana Diop was lost for the season with a ruptured Achilles' tendon.

At the news conference, photographers kneeling behind a rope resembled Tebow in repose — knee on the turf, camera at the ready — and their flashes popped as he strode through a set of double doors escorted by Jared Winley, the Jets' director of public and media relations (the backup P.R. man for the backup quarterback, a sheer coincidence) and toward the platform.

He'll be signed as a backup big man.

They wanted a better backup big man, and got that when they signed center Spencer Hawes.

Odom was acquired from the Dallas Mavericks to be the primary backup big man for starters Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan.

The Lakers' backup big man has heard every possible pronunciation of his first name, including the most popular, yet incorrect, one as recently as Wednesday night.

"He should have called for backup". The man who was assaulted by De La Cruz said the guard's conduct was uncalled for.

The surprise was the backup big men, both from France.