How to Use archivist in a Sentence

archivist

noun
  • The archivist is set to hand over more documents in the weeks and months to come.
    Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The archivist had found the correct page for each record and marked it with a sheet of paper.
    John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Baggett, the city archivist, said the jail pages should wind up somewhere people can see them.
    Jay Reeves, Star Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Rats and other rodents and pests can make great archivists.
    Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The heroes, set like the Leica on a pedestal, are the archivists.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • Instead, the archivist dropped off just three boxes for González to sort through.
    Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
  • An archivist also introduced him to a survivor who agreed to show him the camp.
    Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Magnum and other archivists had to really do that work from their point of view.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The archivists soak the document to dissolve the glue and then peel off the old silking.
    Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • Before archivists can preserve a record, the record must survive long enough to make it into their hands.
    Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
  • But Campau is an archivist first and foremost.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This is not a portrait of the archivist as storyteller but as a rapt listener.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The little girl behind the breakthrough grew up to become an archivist and mother of one.
    Peter Andrey Smith, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • This has been a strange year to be an archivist, a role that seeks to illuminate the present by excavating the past.
    Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Film archivists are working to save the Afghan movies hidden during years of Taliban rule.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2019
  • For archivists, 1870 is the year everything begins to turn to dust.
    Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Still, many argue that even if Biden were to instruct the archivist to sign the amendment, the victory might be short lived.
    Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Media Burn’s Dan Erdman is one of the archivists involved with the event.
    Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Bonne, who sources botanicals sustainably from local forests, is as much archivist as perfumer.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
  • What archivists found inside changed the story entirely.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Here are eight takes on the cover-friendly storage solution, fit for design fiends, bookworms, and archivists alike.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Durran found the piece by asking Chanel’s archivist to look into an ’80s evening dress in a light color with a kick out at the hem.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Veronica ends up stranded in the Frick during a snow storm, along with archivist Joshua Lawrence.
    Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Decades later an archivist researches both, to lovely effect.
    Caroline Killilea, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Since then, Collins has reached out to scholars and archivists far and wide to collect more DNA samples.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The scale of the image caught the attention of Sara Manco, our senior photo archivist.
    John Stanmeyer, National Geographic, 17 July 2020
  • His sister was the family archivist and quite literally just had a box of undeveloped film.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Schwartz is a local historian and expert archivist.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Moss is Kirby, an archivist at the Chicago Sun-Times in the good old days for big-city newspapers.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2022
  • His contacts led him to a film archivist at USC who digitized the film and created a website for them.
    Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021

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