The word “man” is a noun referring to an adult male human being. It can also be used generically to represent humankind or symbolically to express strength, authority, or individuality. Writers use it in descriptions, dialogue, and broader themes involving identity, society, and humanity. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “man” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Man
I am a very old man; how old I do not know.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
12 words, 43 characters
So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
17 words, 74 characters
It would grow up to be a man, a human soul, with a personality all its own, a will of its own!
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
22 words, 94 characters
I have never told this story, nor shall mortal man see this manuscript until after I have passed over for eternity.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
21 words, 115 characters
I was then a child of but five years, yet I well remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 126 characters
I thought at the time that he was praying, although I never understood that he was in the strict sense of the term a religious man.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 131 characters
He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the carriage of the trained fighting man.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
30 words, 164 characters
I knew that I was a good officer and sailor, and I didn’t propose submitting to degradation and discharge because a lot of old, preglacial fossils had declared over two hundred years before that no man should cross thirty.
Source: Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
39 words, 222 characters
I arrived at the little station, about a mile from his grounds, on the morning of March 4, 1886, and when I asked the livery man to drive me out to Captain Carter’s he replied that if I was a friend of the Captain’s he had some very bad news for me; the Captain had been found dead shortly after daylight that very morning by the watchman attached to an adjoining property.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
72 words, 373 characters
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