Sentence examples for usual man from inspiring English sources

'usual man' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is not remarkable in any way, or who conforms to typical expectations. For example, "He was a usual man - he had a job and a family, and lived a quiet life."

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Frequently derided as merely a one-man team, TFC should be accustomed to such disdain by now, but against the Fire it wasn't the usual man who spurred them to victory.

The gravity of Mr. Panahi's statement only underscored the real and often calamitous world events that have informed a number of the films here, with selections touching on the American war in Iraq, the global financial crisis, religious fundamentalism, armed revolutionary struggles and the usual man's inhumanity against man, women and children.

Most gingers spend their time where the usual man does, so if searching for one the suggested locations to scout are bars, fitness clubs, schools, church, or on the street.

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Its busy 2-3 zone defense, a switch from its usual man-to-man, worked wonders.

Or when, in Vergil's Aeneid, Dido goes beserk at Aeneas's departure (the usual "man-leaves-woman-to-follow-duty" story), any woman who has ever been dumped knows exactly what she was going through.

He made one film last year that fitted the classic SNL-er mode, the dreary That's My Boy, with Adam Sandler doing his usual man-boy schtick and Samberg stuck in a thankless straight-man role, but he hardly mentions that movie.

As usual, men in bird suits flying ultralight aircraft will "imprint" the route on young birds raised in captivity, so that they will remember it.

Some of the usual men in Jessica's life steal baby formula when they're hungry and replace it with sugar water.

As usual, men on the public payroll, their families and friends, made up a sub stantial bloc of the 200 mem bers who bothered to show up for the meeting and they often voted together on is sues that affected them.

"What we used to call a mash-up is now normal," he added of the new blended dress codes, as reflected in a magazine that features all the usual men's magazine content on apparel and toys and grooming products but with the addition of a section of editorial pages devoted to the footwear that now is the single largest driver in the men's wear business.

Today, Mr Malema - who faces fraud and racketeering charges as well as bankruptcy stemming from a tax investigation - was wearing his usual man-of-the-people jeans, offset by grey Louis Vuitton shoes, a Burberry shirt, Ferrari jacket and of course his own EFF beret.

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