The word “men” is the plural of “man,” referring to adult human males. Writers use it to describe characters, groups, relationships, and societies. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “men” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Men
Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
25 words, 130 characters
As our equipment was crude in the extreme we decided that one of us must return to civilization, purchase the necessary machinery and return with a sufficient force of men properly to work the mine.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
35 words, 198 characters
The younger of the other men, it afterwards appeared, was most in his element at the piano; so that they had coffee and comic songs upstairs—the gentlemen, temporarily relinquished, submitting easily in this interest to Mrs. Lowder’s parting injunction not to sit too tight.
Source: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
45 words, 276 characters
He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
64 words, 339 characters
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