How to Use classicist in a Sentence

classicist

noun

• How and why these stones were lost is a subject of some debate among classicists.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Mu, a lawyer by day and a classicist at heart, wanted to lean into the old-timey details while adding an edge.
  — Carly Olson, House Beautiful, 5 Aug. 2021
• Yet Foo Fighters have been proud to be classicists, keepers of the flame.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• An acclaimed classicist of sorts, and, by the way, a current superstar?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Dec. 2025
• Read More Merritt is a classicist and a mischief maker.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• Mendelsohn is also a classicist and ancient texts permeate his work.
  — Giancarlo Buonomo, New Republic, 3 Oct. 2017
• In fact, just last year the first English translation of the story by a female classicist was published.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018
• Classicists might prefer Rag & Bone’s gingham halter top with its ’50s feel.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 5 July 2017
• To even the most devoted classicist, however, there are challenges in redefining such a storied space.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2022
• James is a modern classicist — a sort of reggae Dave Cobb — who is well-versed in vintage dub vibes and clearly plays well with studio vets.
  — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• Rebounding demand has prompted a steady supply of architects for whom being a classicist is no longer shameful.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2020
• For Davie and his fellow classicists, the appeal of the classic systems is their simplicity.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2001
• Law Roach era also suggests a glamour out of time, a woman who survived with a classicist’s commitment to beauty.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Nov. 2022
• Many classicists are skeptical of the way that their field is being talked about in K-12 education.
  — Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The School of Homer got its name in English some two hundred years ago, from a local priest who showed the site to a British classicist.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Constance, on the other hand, was a classicist who liked Cartier, as is evidenced by the four pieces Sotheby's has acquired.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 May 2023
• University of Hawaii classicist Robert Littman, who was not involved in the study, urged caution when looking at flood levels.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2017
• The classicist Daisy Dunn said the finds were even more extravagant than scholars had anticipated.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• Anne Emery sometimes worked that same earnest side of the street, notably in her four-novel account of Dinny Gordon, a budding classicist.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• The English classicist Bernard Knox, for example, identified three major virtues on display in the work.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
• The stylish introduction, by the classicist James Romm, is a joy to read, wearing its considerable learning lightly.
  — A.e. Stallings, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• Bartsch, a classicist, undertook the considerable challenge of learning Chinese to find out what the Chinese saw in the ancient texts.
  — Shadi Bartsch, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• What the film fascinatingly captures is how the two sides of Lean — the classicist and the reckless romantic narcissist — worked together.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 May 2026
• To be a classicist in Xi’s China was to operate with a halo usually reserved for scientists and engineers.
  — Chang Che, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
• Bianco was born in London in the summer of 1881, the daughter of a barrister who was also a distinguished classicist.
  — Vulture, 8 Nov. 2022
• What would Plato have made of the classicist who appears destined to be Balliol’s fourth prime minister since 1900?
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• For you non-classicists, a bush de noel is a fake log made of chocolate cake rolled up with chocolate mousse frosting and then dotted with meringue mushrooms, which are the high priest of the Christmas cookie hierarchy.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 19 Dec. 2017
• According to the classicist Jan Bremmer, rituals like this took place throughout the Greco-Roman world.
  — Candida Moss, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2020
• Xu recalled the excitement of some of his interlocutors, including the Western classicist Glenn Most.
  — Chang Che, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
• Mendelsohn, a classicist, describes the year his 82-year-old father asked to sit in on his college course on Homer’s Odyssey and the cruise the two men later took to the sites mentioned in the poem.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017