How to Use prime mover in a Sentence

prime mover

noun

• She was the prime mover behind the town's annual summer festival.
• For him, low rates weren’t the prime mover of the troubles.
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• The lefty was the prime mover of the A's nine-run inning Sunday.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• But the heart of the movie, and the prime movers of its distinctive tone, are the performers.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2023
• In this case, the prime mover was Germany, with French support.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2021
• There is no reason to mention Yoko as the prime mover in this dust-up.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• There is no reason to mention Yoko as the prime mover in this dustup.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
• It is said to be a prime mover of inflation in the economy.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Alan Stern was a prime mover behind those efforts, going all the way back to 1990.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2015
• From the first, Dario was prime mover, energizer, and star.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
• That wasn’t true, and Rosenstein’s anger at being portrayed as the prime mover quickly forced the White House to backpedal.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
• The world changed in ways that lined up perfectly for Pelé, gilding his mystique, and TV was a prime mover.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Freewheeling and alive with color, the show puts Taeuber-Arp in her rightful place as a prime mover among the Dadaists of wartime Zurich.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• Energy is the most critical element of life and the prime mover of all things.
  — Eric Kaufmann, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• Around the same time, Kirby was the prime mover on a Thor story about a prophecy of the end of the title character’s legion of Norse gods.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
• One of the prime movers in that evolution is skeptical about the current boomlet.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• Videos taken at the scene showed a queue of military vehicles behind the prime mover.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 29 Aug. 2022
• Robertson, who plays guitar on the song, was a prime mover for The Band, a colleague of Bob Dylan, a successful solo artist and more.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2023
• In the end, the only candidate who refused to release one page of one return that year was Richard Nixon, the prime mover in the chain reaction.
  — Ash Carter, Town & Country, 26 Dec. 2012
• Instead, focus on making your glutes and hamstrings the prime movers throughout each rep.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 15 June 2023
• Co-owner Bagwell, who’s been the prime mover at Parkside Cafe over the past 16 months, wanted to the business to continue, Knight said.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 19 Oct. 2021
• In the 1960s, Crosby was a prime mover in the Los Angeles music scene that spun together folk, rock, country and psychedelia.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• Trump remains the prime mover and the biggest figure in the Republican Party.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
• Ema moves with a dancer’s need for constant flux and is also the plot’s prime mover, uninterested in the whys of her want and only in taking the steps to fill it.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• Firefighters were able to save the prime mover and first trailer, but not the B trailer that was carrying a load of toilet paper.
  — Fox News, 23 Mar. 2020
• Not yet 30, MBS wielded tremendous power, and became a prime mover of the reform many thought necessary for the Kingdom.
  — Steve Kurtz, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
• Poor, who’s been a prime mover for Secret Stages since its inception, pointed to other factors, too.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 16 Mar. 2022
• Andre, 39, is the visionary behind the project, buying the old theater and enlisting his parents as prime movers on scene.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2019
• The Tribune noted that crime is the prime mover of this growing trend in their piece, also fueled by the financial and emotional stress of the coronavirus.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 8 Mar. 2022
• This writer called a Wall Street prime mover in conducting people to safety on the morning no one will forget, Frank Bisignano.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 July 2023

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024