Example sentences for: columnists

How can you use “columnists” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What gives this version its kick--and what has made it fodder for columnists for almost six months--is that the people who betray the whistle-blower are among the most famous and powerful journalists in America: Mike Wallace and Don Hewitt, the co-anchor and the executive producer of 60 Minutes . If they could be pressured to "spike" a segment that they knew to be true, the film implicitly asks, how much chance do others have of breaking stories about corporate wrongdoing?

  • As a result, columnists often tend to turn to filler--mock outrage over the scandal of the day; rants on solidly uncontroversial topics (the New York Post 's Maggie Gallagher, I noticed, devoted an entire column yesterday to advancing the rather daring notion that adults should not have sex with children); and, in certain cases, paeans to the comforts of their family.

  • Even Safire's fellow opinion columnists wouldn't dare leap to his conclusion.

  • Sober-minded columnists and education reformers have praised the plan, which hinges on taking federal money away from failing schools and giving it to parents to use elsewhere.

  • Several male columnists ignore most of the championship game and focus on the game-ending goal by American defender Brandi Chastain--"a shootout, womano a womano," with "one winner, one loser, everybody holding their breath."


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