How to Use the toast of in a Sentence

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• Feig became the toast of the town.
  — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• In three months, the Whitecaps have become the toast of the league.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
• Just the night before, Horowitz was the toast of the industry.
  — David Moin, Footwear News, 12 Jan. 2026
• Voting rights advocates made the Texas Democrats the toast of the town.
  — Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
• Darvin Ham, just one season after being the toast of the town, is in danger of being toast.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2024
• Wang still can’t believe all this happened to him — that this outsider had become the toast of the indie movie business.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 24 July 2024
• Calipari and his Wildcats were once the toast of college basketball.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 11 Apr. 2024
• The Kansas City Wizards — a team that went from worst to first overnight — were the toast of the league.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 4 Dec. 2025
• All of a sudden Billy Freston and I were the toast of the building.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
• His cricket future remains up in the air, but Hobson sure will be the toast of the office on his first day back at work.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• Riseborough plays Leslie, who, once upon a time, was the toast of the town after winning a lottery jackpot.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2023
• Ahead of the tome’s December 2 release, Klein was the toast of the town on Monday night.
  — Paul Chi, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2025
• Mulkey, well known for her glitzy outfits and Hall of Famer career, is once again the toast of Louisiana.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Ngumoha is the toast of Merseyside, and beyond, this week and is clearly blessed with a remarkable talent.
  — Gregg Evans, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
• A week later, Hrusovsky was again the toast of the ballpark after a Gonzalez walk-off hit beat the Yankees.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023
• Gosling, who was flanked by Robbie, was the toast of the show, introducing the term Ken-ergy that has become a buzzword.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• The Chairman is taking the Fed into uncharted waters, and the toast of the town one day can become the scapegoat the next.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
• Coco Gauff is the toast of tennis — and Delray Beach, Florida!
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• At Bar Marmont, a stone’s throw away from the hotel, Cyrus, Maybelline's new global face, was the toast of the town.
  — Kelsey Stewart, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
• Despite his lack of nomination, Messi, whose character in the film was named Snoop, has been the toast of awards season.
  — Victoria Edel, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• Those Knicks were the toast of the town for their unexpected success in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
  — Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
• Then there was the dachshund who was the toast of TikTok in July after a video showing her bizarre choice of snooze position went viral.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
• But not Christopher Nolan, the toast of the mortal world’s Mount Olympus — Hollywood.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 July 2026
• Mendoza was the toast of the town in 2024, calmly keeping his team together after a 22-33 start.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
• For now, Gilpin is focused on donning Lincoln’s bratty curls and putting her mark on the role that has made Escola the toast of Broadway.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
• But what a joy to see this singular comedic talent become the toast of Broadway, thanks to their tour de force as a boozy, stagestruck Mary Todd Lincoln.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• Mullins was the toast of college basketball and knew his name would go down in NCAA Tournament history.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
• The Irish poet-novelist-playwright was the toast of 19th-century Anglo letters.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
• This year’s Jazz are the toast of the NBA right now, having earned an incredible 6-3 record despite a pretty tough schedule.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2022
• Underachievement on this scale necessarily raises the question of the manager’s job security, even one year removed from being the toast of the town.
  — Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025