How to Use consigliere in a Sentence

consigliere

noun

• Schreier has now served on the board for a decade and is one of Houston’s consiglieres.
  — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 23 Mar. 2018
• Valerie Biden plays to Joe —a backstage consigliere to Charles.
  — Time, 15 Sep. 2022
• Yet the group keeps him around, and over time Rogers is upped from freelance devotee to full-time digital consigliere.
  — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2012
• Elias is already something of a wartime consigliere for the Democratic elite.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
• But the best thing Bratton did in his seven-year stint was persuade Connie Rice to come inside the tent as consigliere.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
• Trump’s chief mentor, and a consigliere to most of the big shots named above, was the legendary underworld and overworld fixer Roy Cohn.
  — Sean Wilentz, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
• The two men were close during last year’s campaign; Kushner came to see Bannon as a wartime consigliere.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2017
• His consigliere Giuliani is still pursuing shady characters in Kyiv who will give him fake facts for a price.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 22 Dec. 2019
• Laura’s consigliere of choice is her dad Felix, wealthy art dealer, doting grandpa, friend to the working man, cad, rogue.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
• Soon enough Maurizio is back in the mix, with Patrizia as his loyal consigliere and Lady Macbeth.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• Steve Bannon, now a White House consigliere, is by most accounts not a bigot in his personal dealings.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
• Schiff imbues the All-Father with a level of sleaze more befitting a consigliere than the regality of a god, and it’s certainly a choice.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
• Vincent D'Agostino Ross was the boss and below Ross was … like the consigliere would be — in a traditional organized crime family.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2020
• The longtime economic consigliere tried to blow up Biden's stimulus.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2021
• Kenner arrived on the case with street cred in the hip-hop community and a reputation as an effective consigliere to the biggest names in ’90s West Coast rap.
  — Michael Ames, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2024
• The best attorneys are not only your legal eagle, but also your consigliere.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2021
• Accompanying him were his cofounder and consigliere, Dustin Moskovitz, and a couple of interns.
  — Adam Fisher, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• The press-averse Bracey, who declined to speak for this article, is described as a sort of consigliere to Bieber by several people who’ve interacted with him.
  — Shirley Halperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
• There is even less hubbub about David Leavy, the longtime consigliere who was recently installed to oversee business affairs.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 July 2023
• His work over the course of the Trump presidency, though dressed in the trappings of cable news, was indistinguishable from that of a White House consigliere or propagandist.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2022
• Tonino from Boardwalk Empire — seeing a pattern with the casting here?), Chickie’s former consigliere who switches sides when the beef between the two would-be bosses becomes a line in the sand.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2024
• Cohen has called himself Trump’s consigliere and is the most palpably moblike character in Trump’s orbit.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Apr. 2018
• Trump’s sons will take care of his business empire and will hire an ethics consigliere, but the president will still be aware of how any policy decisions would affect his bottom line.
  — Daniel Politi, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
• The 46-year-old Fujimaru is considered the consigliere of natural wine in Japan, a country in thrall to the category, if not to its own wine-making abilities.
  — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
• With Trump out of office, Miller continues to moonlight as McCarthy’s consigliere, on a strictly volunteer basis, of course.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
• Richard Ravitch, the businessman, former lieutenant governor in New York and longtime consigliere to state and city officials, told me.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• Harbaugh parted ways this offseason with longtime offensive line coach and run-game consigliere Tim Drevno.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Adams was Belichick’s sounding board, confidant, and consigliere.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
• He was inspired by Byzantine mosaics, by the three-dimensional works of Alexander Calder, and by the gutsy glamour of his sister Donatella, his lifelong muse and consigliere.
  — Kate Betts, Town & Country, 31 Jan. 2018
• They are also supposed to serve as the big boss’s consiglieres, advising him on their areas of responsibility.
  — Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022