How to Use storyteller in a Sentence

storyteller

noun
  • The songs are storytellers, and so are the objects in my show.
    Candace Hansen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • All that was left to do was find the right storyteller.
    Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The first step, to judge by the absurd crew onstage, will be to change the storytellers.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Which isn’t to say that Rhodes doesn’t blaze as both storyteller and star.
    Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Neil Zurcher has been a beloved storyteller in the Cleveland area for decades.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 25 July 2022
  • That broke the covenant of trust between the storyteller and the listener.
    Paula Woods, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • There are storytellers who made their mark in the media here.
    William A. Virchis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • These are the spaces where the presence of Nelson the storyteller can be felt.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
  • All great prophecies need a storyteller; someone must spread the word, sound the alarm.
    Edmund Arévalo, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The author is a playwright, storyteller and lover of frogs.
    Nadeen Currie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • To talk to Wilson is to witness a bona fide storyteller at work.
    Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The makeup head described him as the film’s storyteller.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Jeff Daniels wears many creative hats, but they all are tied to his gifts as a storyteller.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The standup artists, of which Stamps is one of three on the bill, will perform sets inspired by the truths told by the preceding storytellers.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2024
  • That story meant so much to her as a filmmaker and storyteller, and to all the cast members.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Weerasethakul is not a plot-heavy storyteller, and this is not a thriller with a dark scheme waiting to be uncovered.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The audience knows who the killer is in the first five minutes, so the challenge as a storyteller is to keep the audience engaged, not just in the who, but the how.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Norman is a storyteller who says a lot with very little.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The 29-year-old was born in Mali, the oldest of five siblings in a family of griots, or West African storytellers.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • And just in time, a new crop of talented storytellers has emerged to keep us entertained.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Donoghue, who joined the meeting late dressed in jeans and muddy boots, was a compelling storyteller with a knack for the perfect anecdote.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 23 June 2022
  • Stove God Cooks is that storyteller, that punchline king, that cocaine rap.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Andi Cloud is a teacher, a tribal member of the Ho-Chunk nation and a storyteller.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2022
  • And anybody that’s a storyteller has to embellish it a little bit, right?
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The event featured readings from a diverse group of storytellers.
    Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2024
  • So much of the justice system — from the trial to parole boards and jobs and support networks — requires you to be a storyteller.
    Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Dahl was famously a dark storyteller, but tellingly, the AI couldn’t mimic his style at all.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Over-the-top storytellers who only talk about their successful deeds and not their downfalls.
    Vulture, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Regardless of its root cause, at the heart of every great haunting is one essential element that Los Angeles has always had in spades: great storytellers.
    Jess Joho, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Like any single person past a certain age, Erin Foster can rattle off bad date stories, the kind that when shared over brunch transform the storyteller’s side of the table into a stage and their mimosa into a microphone.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024

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