How to Use statesman in a Sentence

statesman

noun

• He was a soldier and statesman.
• And his role was not only that of a statesman or diplomat.
  — Allan Massie, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
• Too many of them want him back in the game, and not just from an elder-statesman-like distance.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
• Nixon was known to be more hawkish on the Russians and a more seasoned statesman than John F. Kennedy.
  — WSJ, 8 Apr. 2022
• Powell, a soldier turned statesman, was born the child of immigrants in the Bronx.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
• The Spurs’ eldest statesman believes the team’s youth can be an asset.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2021
• As both a scientist and a statesman, Franklin was a game changer.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• Many of her clients were wealthy noblemen and statesmen who had promised to support her in her old age.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• Yoon looked the part of jovial statesman and ultimate U.S. ally.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• Mikhail Gorbachev was a politician and statesman who had a huge impact on the course of world history.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2022
• The three agents have always been kingmakers in this town, but Lourd in the past decade has emerged as an industry statesman.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• Xi was eager to appear the global statesman in his meeting.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• Rucci, who had played a total of 22 games in his first four seasons at UW, was suddenly the elder statesman in the room.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2023
• The meeting burnished William's credentials as a global statesman in his newish role as Prince of Wales.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• Unlike many others, my entry point into the life of Young was not as a civil rights leader, but as a statesman.
  — Ernie Suggs, ajc, 9 Mar. 2022
• Xi Jinping, who took power in late 2012, has styled himself as a visionary statesman on par with Mao and Deng.
  — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 30 June 2021
• So grateful for him — both as a thinker-writer and as a statesman, i.e., a practitioner, a politician.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Sep. 2023
• But the bones of Potemkin, a famed military commander and statesman, have added resonance for the Kremlin.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Pots, pans, silverware and a foot warmer were among the nearly two dozen items stolen from the house where statesman Daniel Webster was born, a state parks official said.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
• The online eulogy for Choco Tacos has been something even the most beloved statesman or actor would envy.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 July 2022
• Cao Cao, after a wily Chinese statesman of the second century, Mr. Kausikan said.
  — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022
• Blumenthal’s mix-up, delivered so somberly by the 75-year-old statesman, was wildly amusing to those in the know.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
• Kentucky The frontiersman and statesman in the seal represent the people of Kentucky: country and city inhabitants of 1792, when the state was joined the Union.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• Perhaps the most visionary statesman of the 21st century, Shinzo Abe was shot and killed in the city of Nara while delivering a speech on the campaign trail.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 July 2022
• The Greek statesman and orator Aeschines wrote that, in the art of persuasion, speaking with an arm outside one’s tunic is very bad manners.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• Kentucky state flag The frontiersman and statesman in the seal represent the people of Kentucky: country and city inhabitants of 1792, when the state was joined the Union.
  — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Its aim is to refresh our understanding of the role played by Zhao in the shaping of modern China as well as to revive his luster as a statesman.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• Remind our lawmakers of the words of the British statesman Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Strutting on the world stage has allowed Mr. Macron to cement his status as a statesman at a time when analysts say voters are seeking a steady hand.
  — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024