How to Use kingmaker in a Sentence

kingmaker

noun

• The bulls of the AI world—and its current kingmakers—still hold the high ground.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 29 Feb. 2024
• The brothers were both kingmakers in their own right, raking in awards and millions at the box office.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2017
• Sequoia’s longtime kingmaker status led it to come across as elitist to some.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
• What better way for the master of memes to go viral, the king becoming a kingmaker.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• Rather, the carrier ended up acting like a sort of kingmaker.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2018
• The president seems acutely aware that his ability to play kingmaker is on the line.
  — Clare Foran, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• That likely sets up the TPP, with 8 seats, as the kingmakers.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 13 Jan. 2024
• His gains in the polls have positioned him to be a political kingmaker.
  — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• While TikTok is full of flashy trends and famous names, its real kingmaker is its code.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 24 Feb. 2021
• Turnout was low and the Kurds did well, becoming kingmakers in the new parliament.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• Frankel plays Criston Cole, a dashing knight who rises to become a kingmaker.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2022
• The three agents have always been kingmakers in this town, but Lourd in the past decade has emerged as an industry statesman.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• Her legacy is prolific first as a kingmaker and later as the wife of Zengi.
  — Katherine Pangonis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• The mayor has tried his hand at playing kingmaker both in local and congressional races in the early days of his term.
  — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
• The anti-oil party, the Greens, failed to win enough votes to become the potential kingmaker.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
• The success has empowered Pureval to embrace a kingmaker role in the party.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2019
• The first is that Mr Di Maio wants not to be kingmaker but king, though that may be tactical bluster.
  — The Economist, 11 Apr. 2018
• This looks to have wrecked the media mogul’s hopes of playing the kingmaker by flagging a premier if his party won more votes than the League.
  — Bloomberg.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• But Rodgers wanted to be kingmaker and was shocked when the Packers were no longer interested.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
• Kinahan was now a boxing kingmaker.
  — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• Trump's role as kingmaker during the GOP primaries is also coming back to haunt him.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2022
• As a result, the Moderates could become the kingmakers of the new government.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 23 Mar. 2026
• The incident is also a blow to Musk, who could have been seen as a new Republican kingmaker if the event had gone as planned.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 May 2023
• But instead of playing kingmaker, the lame-duck governor has refused to get behind a candidate to succeed him.
  — Romy Ellenbogen Herald, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026
• Kan predicted that the right-wing bloc would have 56 seats to 54 for the left wing, leaving Liberman as kingmaker.
  — Marcy Oster, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The hard-line nationalist party led by Avigdor Lieberman, with eight seats, could still play the role of kingmaker.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• In addition to the federal case, Combs faces a torrent of civil suits that paint the one-time hip-hop kingmaker as a longtime abuser.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 10 May 2025
• Comedy kingmaker Lorne Michaels is weighing in on the tumult in late-night television.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
• But by the 2010s, Sony had mostly given up playing the kingmaker for kiddie-heroes.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
• Still, Mayer was the kingmaker, and was the one to personally announce to his bright-eyed contract player Reynolds what her next project would be.
  — Patrick Monahan, VanityFair.com, 20 Jan. 2017