How to Use conductor in a Sentence

conductor

noun
  • Metal is a good conductor of electricity.
  • At the Tigers game, the conductor played down his own sports roots.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2022
  • That thin film of conductor is known as the wiring, or metallization, layer.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Yoichi Udagawa, the fourth and final candidate, is already a conductor about town.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2022
  • The train conductor attempted to brake before the collision, according to the news release, but couldn’t stop in time.
    Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2022
  • Those phrases helped to usher in revisionist readings in which conductors strove to make the coda sound as dire as possible.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Announcements are often made by the conductor when passing Snøhetta and on the rare occasions that musk oxen can be seen from the train.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • The band recently had a performance in an all-school pep rally, and Elizabeth functioned as the conductor.
    Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Management is requesting permission to remove one of the two employees that currently work on each train, a conductor, in most of the country.
    Chris Isidore and Betsy Klein, CNN, 15 July 2022
  • What annoys him the most: When the conductor on the Orange Line suddenly tells everyone to get off at the next station, and walk.
    Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
  • The human takes center stage, almost as a conductor of data, software and interconnected people.
    Agur Jõgi, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • His name appears as a producer, composer, conductor, arranger, or performer on more than 400 albums.
    Kristin McGrath, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The train was quickly de-energized and secured by the Metro North conductor and engineer in order to give safe access to first responders.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2022
  • If Tran was the restaurant’s star in the kitchen, Lai was the conductor in the dining room.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • His dad would bring home copies of the conductor’s score for Williams to study.
    EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Willis joins in the singing, moving his arms like a conductor before the big note.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Cate Blanchett is the greatest conductor of our time in Tár.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2023
  • After getting the train stopped, the conductor found a man dead.
    Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 16 Aug. 2024
  • This film, which is a biopic on the legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein, is not that.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Rosé was the conductor of the Auschwitz women’s orchestra and was in need of a cellist.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The speakers are shipped with a conductor between the two sets of binding posts.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The conductor of the classic Napa Valley Wine Train is using the old ride to blaze a new path.
    Danya Bacchus, CBS News, 29 June 2024
  • As the crowd spots the conductor, the volume inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall surges.
    Ed Leibowitz, Time, 17 Oct. 2022
  • This is the first of two programs in advance of the September start of the conductor’s five-year contract.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The conductor is Raphaël Pichon, a countertenor from France.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2023
  • During the train ride, the conductor came calling for tickets.
    David Means, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Kyle Adam Blair was the able conductor, doing the most with what Chen provided him.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2024
  • Classical conductor Sir Georg Solti, who long held the record, died in 1997.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2023
  • That becomes the job of each director, each singer and each conductor.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And Francesca wants to become a conductor herself one day.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2022

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