Example sentences for: presenters

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

  • Hostess Rosie O'Donnell and a parade of non-theater celebrity presenters get the credit for the big audience, but critics pan O'Donnell's transparent rip-off of Billy Crystal's Oscars shtick.

  • To reach all audiences in the nursing home setting, QIOs in the pilot states found that training to nursing home staff on quality improvement was most effective when presenters integrated the principles of rapid-cycle quality improvement into examples of small-scale improvements that could be made in care processes common to the nursing home setting.

  • Even a "semi-spontaneous tribute to Muhammad Ali couldn't rescue the festivities," says Brian Lowry of the Los Angeles Times . Redeeming features included the return of master of ceremonies Billy Crystal and his "repeated relief from the pretentiousness of presenters" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ); Jessica Yu's crack that her evening's outfit cost more than her Oscar-winning documentary; and David Helfgott's performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee . (See "The Week/The Spin" for more on the results.)

  • On the whole, despite the preliminary screening that callers are subjected to, mainly in order to eliminate cranks, drunks, and undesirables, those who do get through rarely have anything of moment to contribute, the presenters are notably unsympathetic in eliciting a fair exposure of their comments, and the listener is (too) often left with the feeling that the presenter has been too dismissive.

  • Although it is the presenter who has ultimate control in the encounter--a control he may legitimate in terms of the interests of the “listeners out there,” their right to be entertained and to be protected from offensive views--the listeners who call in may challenge the norms he lays down in various ways, from dogged pursuit of a “personal relationship” with the presenter to equally dogged resistance to the “containment strategies” presenters employ.


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