Example sentences for: laureate

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

  • The poet laureate is an officer of the Library of Congress.

  • Actually, the poet laureate's duties are a bit vague.

  • Cohen has always been praised as the poet laureate of songsters.

  • The Times of London's lead story said Northern Ireland Unionist leader David Trimble, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, may have taken "the biggest gamble of his career" by considering entering in government with the Republican Sinn Fein Party--the political wing of the Irish Republican Army--before a single IRA weapon has been handed over.

  • But the Times and the Daily Telegraph both underscored the political risks that Trimble, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is running by backing off from his party's traditional "no guns, no government" stand--a policy of refusing to share power with Adams' Sinn Fein Party in a devolved Northern Ireland parliament before the Irish Republican Army hands over any of its weapons.


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