Sentence examples for man applies from inspiring English sources

"Man applies for 2,000 jobs but doesn't get one interview," bemoans one paper.

I've often wondered if this isn't an indulgence on my part, and whether I should train myself to cope with more human interaction − but I fear Auden's characterisation of poetry ("The social act of the solitary man") applies still better to novelising, which requires its practitioner to listen very intently so as to hear the voices and thoughts of wholly inexistent beings.

Tyburn was a deathly presence in the literature of the time.: in Ben Jonson's play The New Inn, the host remarks darkly that if a man applies himself to the arts of paganism, "He may, perhaps, take a degree at Tyburn".

The New Yorker, July 9, 1927 P. 9 Gentleman living in Greenwich Village answers door to man who asks for a dime for a cup of coffee; later, having moved to a new home near Fifth Avenue, the same man applies there, asking for a dime for a cup of tea.

Meanwhile the beggar, somehow disguised as an ordinary looking Caucasian man, applies for a janitorial job at a Cheverly, Maryland elementary school.

One man applied for £36,000 worth of tickets.

One man applied pressure to a gunshot wound on a woman's thigh, McJunkins recalled.

Shelby is simply a rational man applying a (mostly) rational set of laws.

This new Romney sounded like a man applying to be the C.E.O. of a country that needs a turnaround.

He is reggae's long-running soul man, applying the gruff, gospel exuberance of Otis Redding to tales of prison, love, dancing and redemption.

By Les Murray The New Yorker, October 13 , 1980P. 46 The man applying rules to keep me out View Article By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By Jelani Cobb By Ceridwen Dovey.