How to Use docent in a Sentence

docent

noun

• Throughout four days, find the installations scattered throughout the house, museum tours from docents and access to the garden, which is not usually open to the public.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Docents will give tours of the grounds from noon to 4 p.m.
  — Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 July 2017
• 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
• Her father Jim Healey has served as a docent for 11 years, giving tours of the adobe.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2017
• For one, a docent usually has eight to 10 kids on a tour.
  — Brittani Howell, The Seattle Times, 9 Feb. 2018
• One docent will be able to tell a personal tale about one of the exhibits.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The two are docents assigned to a different house and got the chance to tour Wing mansion at their own pace.
  — Gloria Casas, Elgin Courier-News, 9 Sep. 2017
• Small group tours and their docents will leave every five to 10 minutes, with the last tour leaving at 9 p.m.
  — Aurora Beacon-News, 29 Sep. 2017
• These days, Glynn feels more like a docent than a Realtor.
  — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 17 May 2017
• 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
• Still, museum docents say children as young as 5 have explored the haunted house and asked to go again.
  — Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
• One of Webster’s duties as a docent was to manage the line and prevent people from touching the displays.
  — Katie Knight, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Ronstadt’s father was a founding member and her mother was one of the original docents.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024