How to Use founder in a Sentence

founder

1 of 2 noun

• Among the outreach teams involved in the count was Aaron Reddin, founder of The Van.
  — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2023
• One of those few good problems to have as a retail founder.
  — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2023
• Dressed in a blue bodysuit, the Skims founder was seen at Bad Bunny’s side as the group pushed through the packed venue.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2023
• The SKIMs founder sported a pair of low-rise black leather pants that featured bright green and white stitching on the pants’ sides.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2024
• Tommy Murchison, the founder and promoter of the Big Buck Classic, is very proud of the show's longevity.
  — Bryan Hendricks, arkansasonline.com, 18 Jan. 2024
• As the founder of Stanford’s first club for the deaf and hard of hearing, Pritsky would invite speakers to campus.
  — Ramsha Zubairi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• Last year, the ex-Theranos founder was found guilty of four courts of wire fraud and conspiracy.
  — Town & Country, 1 June 2023
• Three of the brand’s most popular spices, plus a little wooden spoon, is a favorite gift of Ghia founder Melanie Masarin.
  — Erika Veurink, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
• Plus, Goop founder and Coldplay frontman have remained close friends.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
• The founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has been convicted on all of the seven counts on which he was tried.
  — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
• Finger took the lead, along with another founder of the unit—Roberto Cabral, a boyish-looking man of fifty-five.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• This is Najah Roberts, a founder of one of the few brick-and-mortar cryptocurrency exchanges in the country.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
• Unlike other celebrity founders, though, Mitchell prefers to keep her high-profile name out of the Béis branding.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2024
• Jeff Bezos is third on the list, with the Amazon founder’s net worth estimated to be $146 billion.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 1 June 2023
• The founders of the brewery grew up in the South Gate area and are focused on providing a welcoming space for the community.
  — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The Kylie Cosmetics founder was spending a sunny afternoon by the pool.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 9 July 2023
• The gallery’s founders, Jeff Poe and Tim Blum, are parting ways after nearly three decades in business together.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Bloch was a philanthropist who donated millions to cancer research, and her husband was one of the founders of H&R Block.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024
• Last August, the Rhode founder told Harper’s Bazaar that being married and planning for a family is hard work.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 May 2023
• But the biggest issue is that there just aren’t enough big movies to fill the schedule, says David Herrin, founder and chief executive of tracking firm the Quorum.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
• In 2001, Taliban founder Mohammad Omar declared the Buddhas false gods and announced plans to destroy them.
  — Rick Noack, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
• Shortly after the contest, Crawford and her mother took a meeting with Motown founder Berry Gordy.
  — Melissa Giannini, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
• Dave Benfield, DuClaw’s founder, said production at the company’s Rosedale brewery will end next month.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2023
• Todd Noack is the founder and executive director of Rhonda's House, a rural peer respite program in Iowa.
  — Cheryl Platzman Weinstock, CBS News, 10 July 2023
• Bird founder Travis VanderZanden has fared better than the fleet managers who toiled to make his vision possible.
  — Amy Martyn, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• Medrano posted a TikTok from the trip that has since been deleted that featured the rapper and 818 Tequila founder together.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 15 May 2023
• TechCrunch reports that many hope this will begin to change a situation where women and founders of color attract a mere 5% of funding each year.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
• The founder of fast-fashion juggernaut Shein has managed to stay out of the spotlight despite his company’s meteoric rise.
  — Shen Lu, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• Despite the abundant need for this kind of program in the community, the project was met with strong opposition over the years, Pastor Tom Brown, an original founder of the coalition, said.
  — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• Mountainside Fitness founder Tom Hatten was the seller.
  — Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2024

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founder

2 of 2 verb

• Her career foundered, and she moved from job to job for several years.
• The Ohio soon foundered, its crew of 16 rescued by the Moonlight.
  — John Flesher, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
• But then came the Psalms, and there my ambition foundered.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2023
• Without Manchin's sign-off, the Biden package could founder.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2021
• The boat foundered about 50 miles southwest of Pylos, a city in southern Greece.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• Multiple efforts by the United States and the UN to broker peace foundered.
  — Uri Kaufman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
• The owners initially planned to close only some of the stores, but that changed in late June, when a $45 million loan to keep the business afloat foundered.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• Some Chinese analysts have been blunt in their views of how Russia has foundered.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• More recent attempts to modify the body have foundered.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• With the team foundering and Snyder engulfed in scandals, the owners began to contemplate ways to force him out.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• Some breweries, even historic ones with pedigrees as noble as Anchor’s, will founder and sink.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• Plans to turn the Brewster Street site into more than 200 apartments for senior veterans had foundered.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• The financing from Zac’s family for the Lisbon deal never came through, and the project ultimately foundered.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The drill only got a couple hundred meters below the seabed before the project foundered under spiraling costs.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 25 May 2023
• The Collingwood, a large freighter that had been monitoring the foundering ship, rescued all 16 crew members—but Burke remained on the Arlington.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024
• As the rest of the nation’s factory jobs have foundered, the dog-and-cat-food industry quietly built a near-two-decade winning streak, having added jobs every year since 2004.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Drawing on his reporting from Russia and Ukraine during the first six months of the war, Matthews reveals how this sense of destiny proved misguided as the invasion of Ukraine foundered.
  — Owen Matthews, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• As his campaign foundered, DeSantis focused his resources on Iowa.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
• An intention to leave promptly may founder on last-minute complexities.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
• An untold number of great novels have gone unwritten while their authors foundered in Hollywood.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Support could founder, however, if the country is seen as a black hole for Western aid, adding further urgency to the anti-corruption campaign.
  — David L. Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2023
• But multiple attempts to pass immigration reform bills of any significance over the past 15 years have foundered.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
• And the game—the most prestigious and lucrative women’s sport in the world, at a time when women’s sports are garnering interest and recognition as never before—is foundering.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
• Over the last 12 months, investors poured money into artificial intelligence startups, but the rest of the industry foundered.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
• In an interview, Anutin said support for the cannabis regulation bill that foundered in the last parliament is critical for winning the Bhumjaithai party’s backing.
  — Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2023
• The Reserve Primary Fund foundered during the 2008 financial crisis as commercial paper fell hard.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
• Near the end of the course in early February, for example, the students were sent to handle an actual emergency rescue after the operator of a private boat that was foundering in 20-foot seas and high winds called for help.
  — Kirk Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• Under Obama, who like Clinton taught constitutional law at one point early in his career, the sentiment seemed to be that a legal challenge to the debt ceiling, even if plausible, could founder.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
• Even Los Angeles Unified, the country’s second-largest school district, has foundered in its attempt to hire more mental health workers, a recent Times investigation found.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• As unlikely as the musical meet-up between the disparate musicians was, the result was a moment that helped not only Aerosmith’s foundering career but pushed rap into a spotlight that only grew hotter with the decades to come.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024