Sentence examples for measure a man from inspiring English sources

"I don't want to measure a man by one event when I've seen a hundred others," he said.

It is hard to measure a man who is a member of both the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.

If you want to measure a man by the money he has accumulated, Carl Icahn is probably in the top 10 (Deborah Solomon, June 5).

New Yorkers, after all, can measure a man by the tracks of his teeth imprinted in a black-and-white cookie.

He was a regimental sergeant major with one of those sticks to measure a man's pace and a very fierce moustache.

In the more than half-century since the play opened the compulsion to measure a man's worth by the size of his paycheck has probably become only more pronounced in American culture.

He was, and remains, cautious, measured, a man of few passions other than his family and gardening.

Basques, he said, like to create sports that are "close to work habits," such things as tree-cutting competitions or measuring a man's strength against oxen.

The novel is an aleatory fugue on the difficulty of manhood in an age that measures a man by what he buys or what he wears, not by his labor, not even by his human decency.

The one that measures a man by how many babymothers he has wrangling his offspring, or by how 'bad' his reputation is on the streets of whatever couple of square miles he chooses to call his 'ends'ends

MICHAEL FERUGIO The Measure of a Man "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good".