How to Use interviewee in a Sentence

interviewee

noun
  • He asked the interviewee some very personal questions.
  • If the interviewee moves to the next stage of the process, they're put on the mic in front of about 20 to 30 staff members.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This is the first time that the interviewee came to the studio on a bicycle.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 May 2024
  • The interviewees work in a range of roles across the industry.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Ask about which coach made the better boss and who was the more engaging interviewee and both laugh.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2019
  • But they shouldn’t, and any stand-out interviewee should be prepared for these.
    Blue Sky Views, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The fact that King has been dead for half a century did not stop many interviewees from going along with the false premise.
    Ashley Hoffman, Time, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The interviewee is placed in an empty play area to get used to their surroundings.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The interviewees’ race, class, gender and point of view were no obstacles for her.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The cast of interviewees that the series has assembled is mostly up to the task of discussing these topics and many more, too.
    Sarah Kurchak, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But interviews take time and can tell you only as much as the interviewee knows.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
  • The interviewee was a pro-Trump troll — and the president was likely watching the segment.
    Robert Newhouse, Teen Vogue, 19 July 2017
  • To be able to see things from the perspectives of my interviewees and my subjects has been a big influence.
    Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
  • In the second half, one of her interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 5 July 2023
  • And what about my interviewee who clawed his way out of homelessness?
    Craig Taylor, Time, 24 Mar. 2021
  • What was the process like of finding the various interviewees?
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024
  • If the interviewees seem nervous, the agents are to avoid factoring in that it might be caused by trauma or culture shock.
    Nick Tabor, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The one thing all interviewees shared was a powerful love for their children.
    Kathryn Streeter, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2019
  • The second interviewee, however, didn’t hold her fire when asked what her thoughts were on MGK.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Perhaps the interviewee was late to the appointment or was not well prepared.
    Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But still, every interviewee spoke of the sense of pride and accomplishment that came out of their purchase.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 30 Dec. 2019
  • At the end, Drake revealed himself to the astonishment of the interviewees.
    Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • One of the film's most striking scenes, in which Kim sees soldiers beating a truck full of naked civilians, came directly from one of the interviewees.
    Shannon L. Bowen, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2017
  • One interviewee argues that Jewish people shouldn’t have been killed, but should have been moved away to a new country.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 May 2021
  • A dream list of interviewees was drafted and requests sent across the States, South America and Europe.
    Brendan Seibel, WIRED, 16 May 2010
  • The interviewees appear against a gray-brown backdrop, under lighting that’s both crisp and warm.
    John Hoffman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The interviewees are mixed in their reactions, which makes sense because no one seems to know what the hell’s going on in Parliament.
    Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • That interviewee also claimed Byrd fired twice, not once.
    Fox News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • No doubt a certain pall hangs over the film, perhaps inevitable with the subject, and aided by the cathartic candor of most interviewees.
    Graham Ambrose, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2018
  • During the interview, Cooper realized the young man in the video was his interviewees’ son.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 1 Sep. 2024

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