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
  • 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
  • The areas where conductors will be formed are blocked from the light.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 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
  • As an even conductor of heat, the bowl would encourage a splendid rise.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 9 June 2022
  • Beyoncé is just one short of the record for most awards won, held by conductor Georg Solti, with 31 wins.
    Char Adams, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The conductor Richard Bonynge ranked her among the top four sopranos of the 20th century.
    Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The 2018 death of Oliver Knussen, a British composer and conductor.
    Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Active rest The conductor hikes the next day, a trail near Monument, where his epiphany emerged months before.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Ravel’s most famous work only feels like a waiting game in the hands of a lousy conductor.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • As the engineer dialed 911, the conductor ran to Cole’s side and used his own belt to tie a second tourniquet around the other leg.
    Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The conductor urged everyone to get out to avoid getting stuck.
    Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The resulting changes in the voltage can be measured to determine the distance of the magnet from the conductor.
    Henri Robbins, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In another incident that month, a train conductor was slashed in the neck.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024

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