matinee idol in a sentence

Examples

1. Once upon a time, he would've been called a matinee idol.
2. To Western audiences, Lukashenko may not seem an obvious matinee idol.
3. Harris was never cut out to join contemporaries as a smooth matinee idol.
4. With the advent of silent film, Daly became a matinee idol.
5. He never saw himself as a matinee idol or a showman.
6. The Rangers needed pitching and invested in a matinee idol instead.
7. He was one of the top matinee idols from the 1990s.
8. OK, so Russell Beale may not look the matinee idol.
9. He was a former matinee idol in the late 1980s.
10. I was a matinee idol in this town, a studmuffin.