How to Use company man in a Sentence

company man

noun
  • Costner would be a splashy get for a straight-to-streaming movie, and the actor was a company man.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 28 June 2024
  • Tuello is the other side of the coin — dedicated to the rule of law, a company man.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 16 June 2021
  • The Jagat Seths then bribed the company men to attack Siraj.
    — Iain Murray, National Review, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Law was a company man, but that company was Tajuan E. Law Inc.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Good for Kenny Stills, who’s not going to play company man.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Barkley then fired back on X, accusing Barber of being a company man for the team.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Despite his deference to the chain of command, McMaster was not a company man in the narrow sense that the Army wanted.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Asked about not pitching, Cole, who has spent two seasons in Houston after five in Pittsburgh, was a company man.
    — Cindy Boren, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Barbara convinced a few company men to transfer their business to her.
    — Longreads, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Ho-Sang gave me the introductory lesson in drinking etiquette that is the first thing any company man in Seoul must learn.
    — Wesley Yang, Bon Appetit, 9 May 2017
  • The ideal company man, Curry will do his job without complaint this season, weaving through double- and triple-teams to help ensure the Warriors get back to the playoffs.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2021
  • Mattinison was, perhaps, one of the last of an almost extinct genotype—the happy company man, the lifer.
    — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Now Big Papi is a company man, delivering the party line for Sox owners.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Shine was seen as a low-key executive and company man at Fox News, serving as co-president of the network before leaving.
    — Josh Dawsey, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
  • Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Not even Styles—returning to acting as company man Jack Chambers, his most substantive role yet—was immune.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The idea of the company man who works at one organization for his entire career feels laughably outdated.
    — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The idea of the company man who works at one organisation for his entire career feels laughably outdated.
    — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • There's the jealous religious leaders fearing loss of power, the company man concerned about keeping his job and keeping order ... and a betrayer whose love of wealth overcomes his love for a friend.
    — Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • As Alistar Gregory, a former major and clear company man tasked with keeping the press away, Timothy Spall is all pursed-mouth menace.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The 1980s saw the inscrutable foreigner with his secret allegiance to the emperor evolve into the company man with an obsessive allegiance to work.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Departing Intel after 30 years as a company man hurt badly.
    — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Mnuchin, by contrast, is often viewed as a company man -- regurgitating talking points even in private discussions.
    — Sara Murray and Jeff Zeleny, CNN, 14 Sep. 2017
  • But for Nike, Franklin’s rapid transformation from trusted company man to whistleblower has created what may be the worst legal and public relations crisis in the company’s history.
    — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2019

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