How to Use doyen in a Sentence

doyen

noun

• He is considered the doyen of political journalists.
• This is Eisenberg, after all, the doyen of the flinch and the frown.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
• One of them hurled a fish at the audience—Suzy Menkes, then the doyen of The Times, caught it in her lap.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2024
• But there’s a reason Bob Cousy, the doyen of point guards, doubted him.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• This one felt different, and not just because the Celtics paid tribute to the late Bill Russell and played in the dominant doyen’s honor.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• Trump and Leo built an unlikely alliance that would benefit both the politician and the legal doyen.
  — Tessa Berenson, Time, 8 Feb. 2018
• Flash forward to 2019, and the current doyen of the family business, Ben, has made his triumphant return to the chi-chi vacation spot.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 6 May 2019
• These are the questions that, over the past decade or so, jazz listeners have watched Salvant — now 30, and the unrivaled doyen of young jazz vocalists — work through.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Luckily, Duke doyen Mike Krzyzewski sees the light where some of his football counterparts don’t.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
• Ameen Sayani, the doyen of Indian radio, died on Tuesday in Mumbai following a heart attack.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• The doyens of the European Union are also breathing a sigh of relief after Mattarella's intervention.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 28 May 2018
• The fashion doyen returns the favor, dominating the film with his sheer force of personality.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
• Surely a follow-up story would soon appear, explaining that Cruz was not a mere coach but the doyen of the LD national circuit, and that its mores had played into his predation.
  — Tess McNulty, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• These are simple places, sometimes shacks, but all lively and serving great food cooked by formidable doyens, grandmothers such as Lu.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
• Only under George Balanchine, the doyen of American ballet, did sylphlike figures become the norm.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 9 June 2022
• In the face of a deficit of tens of thousands of votes in a close count following Peru’s June 6 presidential election, Keiko Fujimori, the 46-year-old doyen of a right-wing political dynasty, declined to concede.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
• Wolfe, who died Monday at age 88, was known as a dandified doyen of the New Journalism, a reporter who embedded with hippies and race car drivers and astronauts, and later as a grandiose novelist.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 15 May 2018
• For the eternally young doyen of the Broadway musical, even revivals were an opportunity for trying something new.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• In a nation where laws permit any citizen to file lawsuits against anyone perceived of immorality or tarnishing the country’s image, the 69-year-old lawyer is the profession’s doyen.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2019
• Only Andersson, the doyen of inaction movies, could offer beatitudes to the ineffectual and the zonked.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
• Kositza has become the face and voice of the publishing house, reviewing books and promoting Antaios’s new releases on her YouTube channel, while Kubitschek is one of its ideological doyens.
  — Sumi Somaskanda, The Atlantic, 22 June 2017
• Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Andrei Kolesnikov as a former doyen of the Kremlin press pool.
  — Newsweek, 8 June 2015
• The doyen of Labour’s energy policy is not Clement Attlee, the prime minister who nationalised Britain’s fractured array of public and private energy suppliers.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024