How to Use crier in a Sentence

crier

noun

• Here's what's on the mind of the global village's town crier.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 May 1998
• Among the criers were some of the least decorous people in the country.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
• Randall, the show’s crier-in-chief, struggles with the very meaning of life.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• The old newspapers were called that, and there were criers that went from town to town singing the news, like in Robin Hood.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2017
• But perhaps the movies’ most ferocious crier is Glenn Close.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• Not bad for a man being skewered as a crazy wolf-crier just one month before his film opened.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 23 Feb. 2017
• The criers weren’t stigmatized or diminished in the eyes of those who witnessed.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The crier’s job includes spreading the news of the day, serving as an ambassador for the town, and taking photos with tourists.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• Citadelle, who Ali said is not a crier, teared up after the Scott brothers surprised her with the news of the renovation.
  — Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 4 May 2022
• Moner is already one of the great criers of recent screen history.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 23 June 2017
• When no wolf was found, the crier lost all credibility.
  — Fortune, 23 Dec. 2020
• Those below them were sorted into three groups: eyes, criers, and butchers.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• In her interview with Erin Andrews, Emma cops to being an easy crier.
  — Amy Watts, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2017
• The Casagrandes are college professors, nurses, entrepreneurs and one of them is even a professional crier.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 26 Oct. 2019
• With his uncombed mop of hair and sneering Queens accent, Breslin was a confessor and town crier and sometimes seemed like a character right out of his own work.
  — Verena Dobnik, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2017
• Later still, to the amusement of some villagers and the dismay of others, Salka insists on wearing trousers, and becomes both a union organizer for the fishermen and a towering crier-out against injustice.
  — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• Another study found that men were much less willing to help crying men than crying women, while women's willingness to help didn't drastically differ depending on the crier's gender.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 24 June 2021
• Rosebrooks is the former president of Putnam Business Association and is a philanthropist, social activist and town crier who is always committed to the community.
  — Courant Community, 22 May 2017

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024