How to Use gatekeeper in a Sentence

gatekeeper

noun

• Though, of course, the gatekeeper had tipped off the welcome team.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 29 June 2023
• Look, the chief of staff's supposed to be a gatekeeper.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Love was the gatekeeper to one of the most powerful men in sports.
  — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
• But the Astros, for now, remain the gatekeeper to the World Series.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• Near the end of his life, old and frail, the man asks the gatekeeper a question: Why haven’t more people sought entrance at the door of the law?
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Yee, the gatekeeper to the state treasury, warned against doing so.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
• Under Benedict, he was named the prefect of the papal household—the gatekeeper to the Pope.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• And that is how many see critics today — snarling gatekeepers in need of a good kick.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• The gatekeeper role that LMS not occupy is by no means bad.
  — Derek Newton, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• In the clubby art world, no one wants to risk offending a gatekeeper to prime works.
  — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
• But many SMBs don’t have the luxury of a gatekeeper to screen calls, answer the phone while the team’s busy and jot down messages.
  — Gavin MacOmber, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Sherry-Lehmann was long considered the gatekeeper to the US market for brands from around the world.
  — Katia Porzecanski, Fortune, 19 July 2023
• And the thought arrived: Maybe this audience love is all due to the fact that Bryan snuck right past the gatekeepers and tastemakers, not in spite of that.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
• Speaking of gatekeepers, what are your thoughts on the writers and actors strikes?
  — Alexis P. Williams, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• For a time, Perez was close enough to influence those gatekeepers.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Silicon Valley heavyweights were the de facto gatekeepers for how and whether the tech would be used.
  — Kashmir Hill, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The pictures, palette, branding and copy should reflect the tone of the prospect with the agent becoming the gatekeeper to said pathway to paradise.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Being the gatekeeper of the living room is sure to be a treasure trove that is more than worthy of their investments.
  — Ian Morris, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2022
• This is the gatekeeper for whatever business this might be.
  — Yadi Rodriguez, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
• The gatekeepers have always been a boys’ club — specifically a white boys’ club.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
• One of them, Janet Fash, 63, a longtime chief lifeguard in the Rockaways, said union leaders had a unique gatekeeper role that has helped keep them in power.
  — Dana Rubinstein Calla Kessler, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• Your partner should work with you to schedule visits and to be a gatekeeper regarding his clan.
  — Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 31 July 2022
• But the bill — which employer groups said could lead to uncapped time off — did not pass a key gatekeeper committee.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
• He was supposed to be the gatekeeper to slow down the likes of Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner from winning all the big titles.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• Meadows acted less as a gatekeeper than as a door opener.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
• Some say that a drunken gatekeeper didn’t pay close enough attention to the dykes, leading the area to overflow and cover the kingdom with water.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 Aug. 2022
• His precious casket of ud-al-qimari, the perfumed wood of the Khmers, is stolen from him by Kevin Edelman, the gatekeeper of Britain, who takes it as a kind of tribute—the price of asylum.
  — Nadifa Mohamed, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• The scene crawled with idealistic creatives and the gatekeepers with enough money and connections to make dreams come true.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 20 July 2023
• The gatekeeper, usually HR, will move the top two or three to the company’s hiring manager, or maybe just one.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• But in 2023 there is certainly a sense that women are helping women, and the gatekeepers to capital are the ones who could extend a hand.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024