front man

noun

: a person serving as a front or figurehead

: the lead performer in a musical group

Examples of front man in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web After Paris handed off the Olympics flag to Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, Mission: Impossible front man Cruise jumped from the top of the Stad de France to join the celebration. —

Claire Franken, TVLine, 11 Aug. 2024 Trump is the empty-suit front man for Project 2025. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024 While visiting Merrion Square Park in Dublin, a place that U2 front man Bono is allegedly known to frequent, the series briefly turns into a nature program called Finding Bono in which O’Brien tries to track the elusive rock star. —

Jen Chaney, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024 Down in the bowels of the museum, in Wilco’s backstage suite, Jeff Tweedy, the band’s front man, was lying in an empty claw-footed bathtub, posing for photographs. —

Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for front man

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