How to Use diarist in a Sentence
diarist
noun-
The story of teenage diarist Anne Frank is known across the world.
— Patrick Smith, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2023 -
The modern researchers aren’t the first to try and figure out what was wrong with the diarist’s eyes.
— Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017 -
The Anne Frank House has served as a key steward of the diarist’s legacy since opening in 1960.
— Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2020 -
The book for the show is by New Yorker reporter and diarist Adam Gopnik.
— Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 4 May 2017 -
That’s the birthday of Anne Frank, the most famous Holocaust diarist.
— Ben Nuckols, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2017 -
How much of their lives the diarists left behind varies wildly.
— Julia Kelly, Time, 14 Jan. 2020 -
So, starting the 5th, the diarist didn't receive the annotated calls and notes.
— Ryan Nobles, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022 -
The past is ever-present for pop music's favorite diarist.
— Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2022 -
The tweets included a play on words for Anne Frank, the noted Jewish teenage diarist who was killed during the Holocaust.
— Deepa Seetharaman, WSJ, 17 July 2018 -
The memorial includes a life-sized bronze statue of the Jewish diarist.
— Fox News, 5 Dec. 2021 -
An avid diarist, Ms. Frazier keeps a journal of housing dreams.
— Jason Deparle, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023 -
The youngest diarist, 10-year-old Yehor Kravtsov, also lived in besieged Mariupol.
— Mike Corder, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023 -
The dailiness of life is emphasized, and the intimate voice—a diarist’s voice—feels more like that of someone talking to herself than to you.
— Sigrid Nunez, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2021 -
Eventually, the archive would include the work of more than 2,000 diarists.
— Ruth Franklin, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023 -
Still, experts remain focused on the fate of the teenage diarist whose life was cut tragically short.
— Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Oct. 2017 -
So wrote Jean Froissart, a diarist of the Middle Ages, after an outbreak of bubonic plague in the 14th century.
— The Economist, 6 June 2020 -
The writer and activist Mark Baumer, who died this week, at the age of thirty-three, was a compulsive social-media diarist.
— Anna Heyward, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017 -
Like all good diarists, Beaton was not afraid to reveal his weaknesses.
— New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018 -
Some diarists record statistics: the number of infections, the number of deaths.
— Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020 -
This week’s diarist is Kristyn Leach, a farmer in Winters, California.
— Bon Appétit, 24 Feb. 2021 -
Today's diarist is Alton Brown, who is at home outside of Atlanta with his wife, Elizabeth, and their two dogs.
— Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 21 May 2020 -
The act of reporting creates distance between the writer and the observed, and the diarist becomes a kind of mole, reporting both on those around her and on herself.
— Roxana Robinson, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023 -
Others have pointed out that despite the cruel irony, the honor was intended to help keep the young diarist's memory alive.
— Manisha Ganguly, CNN, 31 Oct. 2017 -
The work, by late veteran journalist and diarist Kenneth Rose, has been serialized in the Daily Mail and sheds new light on some of the behind-the-scenes thinking of the royals.
— Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2019 -
The diarists have been granted anonymity to encourage candor.
— Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023 -
The 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys often slept with male friends and rated their conversation skills.
— Brian Fagan, Quartzy, 4 Oct. 2019 -
One room will reflect the famed diarist’s experiences living in hiding from the Nazis for two years in a secret annex in Amsterdam.
— Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Aug. 2021 -
On the other hand, in the 17th century a maidservant was able to thwart the unwelcome advances of the diarist Samuel Pepys by grabbing a pin from her pocket and threatening to stab him with it, according to his own account.
— Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022 -
One wealthy diarist who helped found the scientific Royal Society of London wrote in 1659 that coal smoke was ruining the city and wrecking citizens’ health.
— David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018 -
Nobody is more nostalgic than diarists, who believe that no moment has been fully lived until it’s been recorded and made available for later reawakening.
— Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
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