Example sentences for: prize-winner

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

  • Headed by Nobel Peace Prize-winner and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, the committee grants amnesty to all who confess to political crimes, as long as the crimes are not "disproportionately" heinous.

  • The words "bleak," "harsh," and "tough" show up in almost every review of Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Proulx's collection of stories set in her adopted state of Wyoming.

  • Unanimous acclaim for the Australian Booker Prize-winner's update of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations . "An audacious and wholly successful act of writerly reinvention" (Marc Carnegie, the Wall Street Journal ). Reviewers praise the way Carey re-examines the oppressive aspects of Victorian England and Victorian literature, even as he spins a crack adventure story.

  • While writing Big Trouble , the late Pulitzer Prize-winner J. Anthony Lukas, who took his own life in June this year, may have sensed that readers in the conservative 1990s would resist being reminded about these ferocious, long-ago American upheavals.


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