How to Use scriptwriter in a Sentence

scriptwriter

noun
  • Karen is a talented scriptwriter who will bring the story to life on screen.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Jacir's strong suits are as a scriptwriter and as a director of actors.
    Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Yours may well be the only show there that doesn’t use a director or a scriptwriter.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Have the Premier League scriptwriters been on strike?
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • This year, the league’s scriptwriters have leaned into the drama more than ever.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Diego Sotelo is a great scriptwriter and David Moreno as well.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Now become a scriptwriter who is creating a new positive scene out of a past event.
    Silke Glaab, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • And because the scriptwriters love a good story, the Rams must return to the same field as their penance.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The industry should take care of them and treat them as talent, like directors and scriptwriters.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025
  • This is the point in the rankings where the NFL scriptwriters start showing off.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
  • If the bad guy turns out to be lurking just off screen, Hollywood’s scriptwriters may yet have a plot worth watching.
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • As a music supervisor, how much does your job coalesce with that of the scriptwriter?
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2023
  • One is another film with the two The Secret Floor scriptwriters.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The scriptwriters are Kazybek Orazbek and Zhaparkhanov.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The scriptwriters, wisely, are vague about dates and avoid naming presidents or public figures.
    Rena Gross, Billboard, 2 May 2018
  • Only a movie scriptwriter could come up with a scenario of a football coach needing a new heart to save his life who works at a high school named Hart.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Meg Bennett, an award-winning soap opera actress and scriptwriter, died on April 11.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Tatort scriptwriters ensured the characters in the game properly resembled the ones from the show.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But the scriptwriters did not merely develop these relationships over the series’ ten years.
    J.t., The Economist, 20 Sep. 2019
  • One of the biggest challenges is empowering scriptwriters and creators.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 19 Feb. 2026
  • One of their two boys, John Marshall, reviewed multiple drafts of the movie’s script and helped the scriptwriters capture his dad.
    Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
  • For the show’s scriptwriters, Taiwan’s #MeToo moment has not fully arrived.
    Wayne Chang, CNN, 10 June 2023
  • The best sports analogies come from the minds of the professional scriptwriters, Levien and Koppelman.
    Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2019
  • Now for the first time, researchers have used these natural DNA scriptwriters to modify genes in human cells.
    Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • The book follows a few days in the life of Fred, a hack scriptwriter who recently attained an Adonis physique so as to screw his way through a bout of heartbreak.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 May 2020
  • That means dads and uncles, teachers and political leaders, Hollywood scriptwriters and podcast hosts—all could stand to get in on the game.
    Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Religion, which is also of great interest to the director and the scriptwriter, is also a sensitive topic.
    Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Alas, this isn’t an action movie crafted by Hollywood scriptwriters in which the protagonist always claws out of the most difficult jams.
    Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The super-talented scriptwriter, Ron Nyswaner, came to see me in Brighton a year or so later to discuss the novel and the script.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2021

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