How to Use docent in a Sentence

docent

noun

• Come and hear the docents explain what life was like in the 1880's.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland.com, 26 July 2019
• Hike with a docent on easy trails at a Palm Springs high point.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
• The docent tells us that the river's canal was the country's busiest until the Erie Canal opened.
  — Jim Webster, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
• The friend had been a docent for tours of colonial houses in the city, and had enjoyed it.
  — Julie Halpert, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• For one, a docent usually has eight to 10 kids on a tour.
  — Brittani Howell, The Seattle Times, 9 Feb. 2018
• You're locked in, and only your wits will set you free (don't worry, there are docents on hand to help).
  — Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Trained docents will guide visitors around the grounds, where Trappist monks live, work and pray.
  — Shelia Poole, ajc, 26 May 2018
• Our docent is a sassy feline who wears jeans, sneakers and a black bomber jacket.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Betty Berman spent 38 years as a docent at the art institute.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 19 Dec. 2020
• Mini walking tour of chapel led by docents at 1 p.m. Free.
  — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• The museum briefly paid a high school student to be a docent in the summer, but now all the work is done by volunteers.
  — Tom Henderson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 25 July 2022
• With a small amount of encouragement, the docent will expound on the Presleys.
  — Verna Gates, al, 30 Dec. 2019
• Even the docents here fully commit to the part, donning fedoras and suits.
  — Kim Windyka, Daily Intelligencer, 16 June 2018
• Meet beer docents from Little Miss Brewing and taste a sample.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• Stop at Art Break stations to hear from local artists or museum docents and take part in gallery projects.
  — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
• The lighthouse has been restored to its 1910 state, and tours are given by volunteer docents who live in the structure in the summer.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
• Become a docent at one of L.A.'s funkiest high-desert landscapes.
  — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Michael Govan spoke to about 200 docents at a luncheon last week and gave sort of a rebuttal.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• Fire all the male managers and let any of the cooks and female waitresses stay on as docents and biologists.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 June 2018
• The greenery might not have a more impressive docent than Gorman.
  — Doreen St. Félix, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021
• Years later, Dot worked as a docent at the science museum.
  — Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• The Lucky Ones will perform live music and docents will offer informal tours of the Mies van der Rohe home.
  — Joy Davis, Aurora Beacon-News, 13 June 2019
• The museum docent told us the story of New London’s role in the historic La Amistad slave revolt.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Joe Romito, a docent and volunteer researcher at the Air and Space Museum, came up with the best number.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
• It is said that Frederick Douglass stayed here, and docents in present day can point out a hidden area above the stairs where freedom seekers hid.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Sikes has been studying these Alaska insects since a docent at the Museum of the North brought in a picture of the larvae and some specimens back in 2007.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
• The docent can present multiple sessions during the school day to a maximum of 25 to 30 students per session.
  — Austin Hewitt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 8 Jan. 2022
• Cost is $20 and a commitment to be a docent or volunteer at one of the local or partner museums.
  — Hartford Courant, 23 June 2022
• The students are also learning how to be docents, learning how to talk about the elements of art and the principles of design with visitors to the gallery.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 8 May 2018
• While many more school classes come now than in the past, there is little to guide them — no docents or audio-guides, and scant audiovisual aids.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 9 June 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024