How to Use Pulitzer Prize in a Sentence

Pulitzer Prize

noun

• The results are hard to argue (see Pulitzer Prize, above).
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
• Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize in commentary in 2020 for her work.
  — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2024
• Kendrick Lamar is one of the most arguably talented rappers in the game and has a Pulitzer Prize award to show for it.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 6 May 2024
• She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• That play was a life-changing work of art that made Cruz the first Latino winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2003.
  — Christine Dolen, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2024
• The paper later won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024
• Gannaway grew close to the St. Pierres, and her images led to five stories in the newspaper and a 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
  — Donny Bajohr, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• Certainly a far cry from when the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner was just happy to snag a job in a mailroom for the free supplies.
  — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Even though it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the show baffled some critics.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Miller, who eventually won a Pulitzer Prize for his series of interviews with the doomed man, found Collins’ face covered by a small piece of oilcloth.
  — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2023
• The Globe became part of the story, too, with editors receiving death threats and the paper earning a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage in 1975.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• Her memoir about cancer and care, ‘‘The Undying,’’ won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
  — Cedar Sigo Anne Boyer, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• With a Pulitzer Prize and a prize-winning personality, Ernie Pyle was the witness of warfare for 14 million people.
  — David Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• His newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting for its coverage.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• An unreleased song by Lamar plays at the end of the clip, its powerfully introspective lyrics a reminder of why he was granted the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2024
• That behind-the-scenes account earned Montemurri a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize.
  — Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2023
• Storke won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
• Kendrick Lamar is tradition-fluent virtuoso and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• Winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for drama, this play is a delightful portrait of a charmingly eccentric family.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2024
• His stories were key in winning a Miami Herald reporting team the Pulitzer Prize for national news coverage in 1987.
  — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2024
• Rukmini Callimachi is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• PolitiFact is a Pulitzer Prize-winning national fact-checking website that partners with newsrooms throughout the country to do state and local fact-checking.
  — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Chernov and his fellow Associated Press journalists who worked on the film have already been honored with the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their reporting.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Absolutely no one was surprised when Hernan Diaz's latest novel won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Aug. 2023
• Hopkins’ law enforcement coverage was recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for public service and other major journalism awards.
  — ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2023
• As the only international reporters in the city, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and his team captured what later became defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, and the bombing of a maternity hospital.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 July 2023
• Whitmire’s year-long examination of how Alabama history influences the state today also won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary earlier this year.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 28 July 2023
• Her long career of journalistic gunslinging — taking aim at corrupt powerful men, firing off stories and taking home trophies, including a Pulitzer Prize — now seems to belong to a vanishing era of American newspapers.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Eighteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, in the categories of history, memoir, poetry, general nonfiction, fiction and biography, which had two winners.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2024
• This Pulitzer Prize winning book is considered a general authority on early nuclear weapons history.
  — Monica Lopez, Scientific American, 27 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024