How to Use authoritative in a Sentence

authoritative

adjective

• The book is an authoritative guide to the city's restaurants.
• She addressed the group with an authoritative voice.
• His manner is polite but authoritative.
• The key with all stories is to find the authoritative sources and then try to double check them.
  — Megan Ditrolio, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022
• Wave your arms, clap your hands, and shout in an authoritative voice.
  — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2024
• Like so much fake news, they are designed to sound authoritative, to scare and to mislead.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 5 Mar. 2020
• There the voice was male, bardic, authoritative, grown sweet and self-confident on the flattery of princes.
  — The Economist, 14 May 2020
• This was the sort of authoritative result that proves Missouri could make some noise come March.
  — Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
• Sexton said the book came across as authoritative, at least back then.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• But as Bieh spoke, his voice was calm, was authoritative.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Like all good turbo fours, the engine builds torque quickly and low in the rev range for that authoritative shove at traffic lights.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 22 Jan. 2021
• Just look at the authoritative pants from Dior and Armani Privé in this story, and the perfect Chanel white blouse that easily moves from day to evening.
  — Bridget Foley, Town & Country, 15 May 2021
• The result is that none of the guidance is authoritative, and people get confused.
  — Andrea Kane, CNN, 25 Aug. 2020
• At 6-foot-5 with salt-and-pepper hair and a deep voice, Lane had an authoritative but soothing presence, Quam said.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• DeMar DeRozan tried his best to complete one of his authoritative fourth-quarter stands, but even his 15 points in the period weren’t enough to pull the Bulls back in front.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• Ehlinger now commands the attention of the entire team, a process that has forced his voice to grow louder, more authoritative.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• All of a sudden, an authoritative man in a fancy suit and a natty hat arrives.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Heywood’s book Njinga of Angola is considered to be one of the most authoritative biographies of the queen and is the source for most of the facts in this piece.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Oct. 2019
• Digging into the claim Part of the difficulty in assessing the claim is the lack of any authoritative sources for police killings in the U.S.
  — Darrel Rowland, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
• White began the game with an authoritative presence behind the arc, knocking down two 3-pointers in the first half.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2021
• But the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club has declared Phil the authoritative groundhog in this quirky myth.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
• And her book is among the most authoritative and comprehensive accounts of Kim — both as a man and as a dictator — in years.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 20 June 2019
• His matter-of-fact voiceover, while authoritative, laments that movie’s lack of success.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Dec. 2024
• Not by the world of science, but by an even more authoritative source: a market research firm working on behalf of a client that sells hair dye.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• Blain-Cruz was relaxed, authoritative, and ready to laugh.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• McElfresh has proved to be pretty authoritative, but supportive of the man who spends most of his waking hours in gyms.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2020
• Memes and GIFs are the authoritative vernacular in almost all of my group chats.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2022
• To see the authoritative ranking of the current corporate world order, see our full list here.
  — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
• His timely break into a skating lane and McTavish’s authoritative pass synergized perfectly to turn a rush without numbers into a go-ahead goal, Strome’s ninth.
  — Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 28 Feb. 2025
• That book took all his research — exhaustive and authoritative but frustratingly inconclusive — and threw it all up in the air in exasperation, which is not something many writers are inclined to do.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025