JOURNALIST in a Sentence

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41 example sentences for JOURNALIST, such as:
1. My former husband is a journalist.
2. He's probably the best journalist who ever lived.
3. A journalist all his life, he's now brought out a book.
4. I ought to begin to think of packing it in as a journalist.
5. The journalist was probing into several financial scandals.
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 Meanings and Examples of JOURNALIST
journalist
 n.  a writer for newspapers and magazines
 n.  someone who keeps a diary or journal
Classic Sentence:
1  If I had come in here as a journalist, I should have interviewed myself and had two columns in every evening paper.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
2  The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at a writing-table.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
3  Chateau-Renaud rented a stall beside his own, while Beauchamp, as a journalist, had unlimited range all over the theatre.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
4  Ultimately a journalist anxious to know something of the fate of his 'dear colleague' turned up.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
5  He stood badly with the Liberal papers, but his noble opposition to the wishes of the court is now getting him into favor with the journalists.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 70. The Ball.
6  It was a gloomy, dusty-looking apartment, such as journalists' offices have always been from time immemorial.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina.
7  I shall try to do what I see lady journalists do: interviewing and writing descriptions and trying to remember conversations.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  So say the third class of historians who regard all historical persons, from monarchs to journalists, as the expression of their age.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
9  But she had no desire to read the eloquent little newspaper essays in praise of labor which are daily written by the white-browed journalistic prophets.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  A great deal of my journalistic work is done at night, and I often write until the early morning.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  The journalist slanted the report so that the mayor was made to appear incompetent.
2  I ought to begin to think of packing it in as a journalist.
3  A journalist all his life, he's now brought out a book.
4  A journalist managed to infiltrate the powerful drug cartel.
5  He'd already begun to establish quite a reputation as a journalist.
6  The journalist was probing into several financial scandals.
7  He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
8  My former husband is a journalist.
9  He's probably the best journalist who ever lived.
10  The journalist did not want to reveal the identity of his informant.
11  A man claiming to be a journalist threatened to reveal details about her private life.
12  The journalist refused to reveal the identity of his informant.
13  The protests mark the second anniversary of the death of Georgy Gongadze, a journalist whose headless corpse was found in a forest near Kiev.
14  That journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush is now reportedly asking for leniency from the prime minister.
15  When rumours emerged that Aristotle Onassis was romantically involved with Jackie Kennedy, a young Greek journalist sneaked on to the shipping magnate's yacht to see if it was true.