Everyman
Example Sentences
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Berenger, a character who appears in different guises in several of his plays, is Ionesco’s version of Everyman.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Wood's adaptation of The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher has just opened at the Liverpool Everyman theatre.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
After a loss, the grieving Everyman finds no option but to keep living—he is, as one character says, “just waiting to see what we’ve been left here for.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
On Sunday at the Everyman theatre in nearby Cheltenham, she was in conversation with broadcaster Richard Bacon, who asked whether reports that she moved because of Donald Trump were correct.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025
Downtrodden Americans gravitated strongly toward the Horatio Alger protagonist, the lowly bred Everyman who rises from anonymity and hopelessness.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
