How to Use winner in a Sentence

winner

noun
  • And the winner is…the blue team!
  • With seconds left on the clock, she scored the winner.
  • The winners will receive their medals shortly.
  • The French film was the winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Dec. 2023
  • And the winner of this year's contest was one for the books.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Find out who made it to the final and pick your winner HERE.
    The Enquirer, 1 Sep. 2023
  • John Archibald is a two-time Pulitzer winner for AL.com.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 28 July 2023
  • Nick Lachey said as he was crowned the winner of season 5.
    Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Buie was clutch down the stretch, hitting the game-winner with 2.7 seconds left.
    Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Certificates have been mailed to the schools for winners through April 5.
    Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Parrish was fouled on the play but missed the free throw, and UC Irvine came to the other end looking for the winner.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Bed Bath & Beyond came out of the 2008 downturn a winner.
    Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The Magic entered Tuesday winners in five of their last six games and six of the last eight.
    Khobi Price, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Even the two-time Super Bowl winner was in awe of the billion-dollar Swift.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • These days, the five-time Grammy winner is happy, healthy and sober.
    Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Alcaraz did the same too with three stone cold winners to take the second game as the tide started to turn.
    Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • Two decades later, the battle lines have been drawn and Roku is clearly the winner.
    Aden Ikram, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In Florida, winners have to claim the lump sum within 60 days of the drawing.
    Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2023
  • To find the full list of previous Powerball winners, click the link to the lottery's website.
    USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Mexico is the undisputed winner, with three cities on the list — the most of any country.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Plus, for the presenters and winners, there was a swag bag worth half a million dollars.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • This feature was a section fave and triple winner at Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte, in 2022.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The Vikings will be a contender in the conference, and the winner of this game will have an early advantage in the standings.
    Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Nearing the end of the show was a performance from Grammy Award winner Babyface.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Notre Dame’s Dane Goodwin had a good look at a potential game-winner, but his open 3 was off.
    Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
  • This year’s second-place winner came from Carol Kenley of Palmer and weighed 71.55 pounds.
    Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • But in the middle of the frenzy, the 42-year-old Grammy winner made sure to acknowledge the Black female country artists who helped pave the way.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2024
  • By contrast, Argentina, the winners of the men’s World Cup in Qatar last year, received $42 million.
    Maddie Parker, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • There were, however, four winners whose tickets matched the numbers drawn for the second prize.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • At stake for the winner: Gomez’s own junk drawer, filled with assorted goodies from her home.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2024

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