1 He was a man of substance.

2 But Miss Close's father was a man of substance, and he finally bought the picture for a rather large sum.

3 I was a man of substance now, I had arrived.

4 He accepted the semi-political duties of a man of substance in his county.

5 A man of substance means a man possess fortune.

6 Hugh Hefner is really a man of substance.

7 Later he became a man of substance.

8 The owner of the oil wells is a man of substance.

9 His will, executed on 12 December 1760, shows him to have been a man of substance.

10 The longest - serving chancellor in modern British history is undeniably a man of substance.