How to Use columnist in a Sentence

columnist

noun
  • Take him at his word, writes columnist Mark Z. Barabak.
    Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Red Smith, the famed sports columnist, wrote that dying is easy.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 30 June 2022
  • Roman made her name as a food columnist and the host of cooking videos for Bon Appétit and the Times.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Like a bunch of the recipes here, this one is from our Nourish columnist, Ellie Krieger.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
  • Dave Hyde has been a Sun Sentinel sports columnist since 1990.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Oberman was the Star’s 22-year-old teen and pop music columnist.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
  • David Marchese is a staff writer for the magazine and the columnist for Talk.
    David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The Headliner Awards named him the 2024 national sports columnist of the year.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Part of my job as a columnist is to touch not just on what’s happening now, but what’s up ahead.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Palomo had been a columnist for less than a year when Broussard was killed.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 6 Oct. 2022
  • In one of the section’s memos, Tablet columnist Michael Lind argues that ...
    Jonathan Nicastro, National Review, 23 June 2023
  • Tech’s big shots have learned free speech isn’t so simple, our columnist writes.
    New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Quindlen had lunch with Paul before the new columnist started last April.
    Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Chicago Tribune movie columnist Gene Siskel was in love with words and movies.
    Kori Rumore and Ellen Przepasniak, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2022
  • Sports columnist Lori Nickel wrote a piece that captured the feelings of many.
    jsonline.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • James Kirchick is a columnist for Tablet magazine and a writer at large for Air Mail.
    James Kirchick, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe sports columnist and author.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • Sarah Green Carmichael is a Bloomberg columnist and editor.
    Sarah Green Carmichael, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • Mike Hutton is a freelance columnist for the Post-Tribune.
    Mike Hutton, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • Ignatius is a foreign affairs columnist for The Washington Post and the author of a ton of spy thrillers over the years.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 15 Dec. 2021
  • In February, Justin left the food team to become a full-time columnist for The Chronicle.
    Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2023
  • At one point not too long ago, columnists and pundits questioned whether Biden should drop her from the ticket.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 23 July 2024
  • Sunak will be in town but as the Bloomberg Opinion’s columnist argues, the prime minister is winning lots of friends in all the wrong places.
    Pete Norman, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2023
  • More akin to a journalist than to an op-ed columnist, Fassler reports the facts and lets her sources speak for themselves.
    Mara Hoberman, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Siegel is an editor at the City, a nonprofit news site, and a columnist at the Daily News.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The only thing that could prevent the Dodgers from winning the 2024 world series is themselves, columnist Bill Plaschke writes.
    Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Darren Cooper is a high school sports columnist for NorthJersey.com.
    Darren Cooper, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The team’s head coach isn’t the reason for its early playoff exit, the Tribune columnist writes.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • Pope Francis has died, and as the tributes pour in — from presidents, cardinals and columnists — the world pauses to remember a man who led with gestures more than grandeur.
    Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The fight over Trump’s legal bullying campaign makes for odd alliances, argues columnist Mark Z. Barabak.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025

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