man's man
Example Sentences
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We appointed Tom Hardy—both a man’s man and a female’s man—as a brand ambassador.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
Sting called Moss “an elder brother, a wise head, a man’s man and a mensch.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023
As "Hemingway" explains, "The world saw him as a man's man, but all his life he would privately be intrigued by the blurred lines between male and female, men and women."
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2021
There’s Rafter in 2001, proving a man’s man again after lurking two points from defeat against Andre Agassi in a towering semifinal.
From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2020
Ray Veech, a man’s man, who spent his life under cars with grease up to his elbows.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
