How to Use anchorman in a Sentence

anchorman

noun

• His job was to make the anchorman look good and to work with a writer . .
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2017
• The report claims that the bidding war could escalate beyond £50m for the 25-year-old, but City refuse to pay over the odds for the anchorman.
  — SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Anchorman and Zoolander were two of the most popular cult films of the '00s.
  — Michael Tedder, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
• There was a time, a time before cable news, when the network anchorman reigned supreme.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 20 June 2017
• Pick your analogy: The Yankees were flattened in the ring, fell from a skyscraper, booted from the anchorman chair.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 27 June 2021
• Clooney’s father, Nick, 88, his TV anchorman voice still resonant, shared his pride in his son.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
• Tokuda, who got her start in Seattle, said the 1980s were still a time when some anchormen, and even cameramen, refused to work with a woman.
  — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2019
• William Kvist, 33, is the wily anchorman at the base of the midfield, with more than a decade of international experience.
  — Steve Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
• Bryan Cranston was named best actor in a play for his National Theatre performance as a news anchorman who snaps in Network.
  — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2018
• The idea of a TV anchorman switching gears in his 70s and embracing the challenges of acting in major films might have been a topic for one of Bernson's own television features.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2019
• Mills said he is concerned the youngest generation may not learn from what anchorman Tom Brokaw dubbed the Greatest Generation.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
• After a few seconds the screen returned to a live shot of an anchorman looking understandably hapless.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• Allardyce quickly became aware of the need for an anchorman in the middle of the park, and set about searching for a plug to the hole in his midfield in the January transfer window just weeks after his appointment.
  — SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• The diminutive Uruguayan looks to be the ball-playing midfield anchorman Arsenal has needed for years, fixing a department that had become one of Wenger’s curious blind spots.
  — Steve Douglas, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
• The most likely explanation is that spending a few days in the company of a network anchorman appealed to the President’s vanity.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 June 2019
• For some four decades Mike Wallace was as famous as a television journalist could get without being a network anchorman.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• And while viewers should tune in Friday for Beamer’s parting words, the affable anchorman just couldn’t resist giving his own spin on that classic Ron Burgundy signoff.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2021
• About that Anchorman: Anderson has always been into punny and pop-culture references for his beer names.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 3 July 2017
• However, Tottenham are hopeful that the former anchorman midfielder will want to join their coaching team.
  — SI.com, 19 July 2017
• Tom, his glib wanna-be anchorman (a temptation to Holly Hunter's hardheaded producer), is both a perfect piece of casting, and a key into something essential about his art.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• Chen played a straight-faced anchorman, narrating the preposterous reports that appeared onscreen.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• Friend will play Guru Bob, a local ex-anchorman, who, after a trauma, rebrands himself as a mystic desert personality.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
• On this same day 40 years ago, a crotchety correspondent named Harry Reasoner, the anchorman at my network, ended our evening newscast with a commentary about the national pastime.
  — Greg Dobbs, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
• But now that anchormen can't report on the President without dropping a variant of another four-letter word, Rockwell’s misdeed passed largely unnoticed.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• One anchorman on a state television news show began a report on Skripal's poisoning with a warning to anyone considering becoming a double agent.
  — Bloomberg.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• On another state television station, Channel One, anchorman Kirill Klemeinov began a report on the case balefully.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
• Clooney — whose father worked as a journalist, anchorman and show host — studied broadcast journalism at Kentucky University before deciding to be an actor.
  — Sonaiya Kelley, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• Monica, her cheerleader friend, hectors her to keep quiet, and the local media — personified by a buffoonish anchorman composite called The News — focuses on the potential damage to the Romans’ season.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• For example, while a network anchorman can surely savor his resemblance to the biblical David, a correspondent, who obtained his match surreptitiously, is paired with an 18th century Venetian artist.
  — Dean Reynolds, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2018
• In this case, the destruction of confidence that the game of politics was on the level or that people with respected titles, like president or senator or lawyer or anchorman, were necessarily comporting themselves in respectable or responsible ways.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024