How to Use leading light in a Sentence

leading light

noun

• He is one of the leading lights of the labor movement.
• Lisa Jackson was the leading light in the field, Vitale said.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 12 Dec. 2019
• Lieberman rejects the idea of statehood, as do most of the leading lights within the Likud.
  — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
• New Zealand has become a leading light in the struggle against the forces of hate and fear that threaten to pull our world apart.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2019
• City has been a leading light over the past decade, with six championships since 2012, including four of the past five.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• Best known for his novels in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the son of Kingsley Amis was a leading light in London’s literary scene.
  — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• To this point, the Democrats’ leading lights have shown little deference to Schultz’s faction.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 6 June 2018
• But why didn’t these leading lights raise the alarm about Weinstein sooner?
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 3 Mar. 2020
• The five-piece is a leading light in the wave of young regional Mexican music to blow up TikTok and the Billboard charts.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• The politician, a leading voice for reform in Malaysia and once a leading light in the party that ruled Malaysia until last week's election, was jailed in 2015.
  — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 15 May 2018
• But anything can be achieved with a clear vision driven by a leading light, a flame that embraces a core purpose.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
• In its earliest incarnation, the group was a leading light of the English blues scene.
  — NBC News, 10 June 2018
• Many of bossa nova’s leading lights were either just writers or just performers; Mr. Lyra was among the few who were both.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• Some of the planet's most accomplished modders, backed by the leading lights in PC components, use the massive trade show to parade their best work.
  — John Burek, PCMAG, 5 June 2023
• That Flynn — never considered one of the body’s leading lights — now seems its sage statesman is a testament to just how far the council has sunk.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Newspapers emblazon the faces of and headlines about the leading lights all over the front pages, and deliver blanket coverage in the sports sections at the back.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 7 July 2018
• There’s not enough space in this column to name and detail the accomplishments of all of them, but here are a few of our region’s leading lights who shined especially bright in 2017.
  — Paul Owens, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• For decades, Penn has been a leading light in the saltwater reel market, making ultra-durable products to combat the most damage that fish and the elements can dish out.
  — Pete Robins, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• But behind the showman’s bravado is a connoisseur of design’s leading lights.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2019
• The younger generation includes several leading lights who challenge the idea that the Tory party is a white one.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
• Regardless, the mere fact that the party’s leading lights feel compelled to perform this gesture is a testament to the left’s growing strength within Team Blue’s tent.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 14 Feb. 2018
• Scoring goals hasn't been too much of an issue, though, with leading light Robert Lewandowski continuing to fire up front; the Pole already on seven strikes for the season.
  — SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• In the late 1970s Mueller traded on her midnight-movie stardom to become a leading light of New York’s downtown scene at the height of its polymorphous perversity.
  — Negar Azimi, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Olympus, once a leading light in the photography industry, is now joining that list.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 24 June 2020
• Soares has been a leading light for Southampton over the past three seasons but (as a seasoned international) would not be tempted to stick around on the south coast and play in England's second tier.
  — SI.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the movement’s leading lights, was famous for denouncing his colleagues’ work in vivid and personal terms.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• Until fairly recently, the leading lights of Europe and America would have agreed.
  — Rebecca Burgess and, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• Many leading lights of midcentury modernism were involved in the project as design consultants or artists.
  — Ellen Piligian, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2020
• Take the case of Josef and Anni Albers, today considered leading lights of 20th-century modernism.
  — Carol Kino, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• Tushnet is notable as one of the leading lights of the critical legal studies movement (CLS), most known for spawning the sub-field of critical race theory.
  — Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 20 July 2023

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024