average Joe

Example Sentences

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The average Joe won’t get such an opportunity to set the record straight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

For the average Joe on the street, I just think, wear what makes you happy, be comfortable, as long as you're happy.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2025

"I've struggled to find any internet to work, been conned into spending more money because I'm a foreigner, and had a lot more food poisoning than your average Joe."

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2022

The free market revolutionary as an average Joe, chatting up the workingman.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

As Burrows told the New York Times in 1983, the trio “wanted to create a show around a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy-type relationship” between a sophisticate and an average Joe.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2020