How to Use doyen in a Sentence

doyen

noun
  • He is considered the doyen of political journalists.
  • This is Eisenberg, after all, the doyen of the flinch and the frown.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
  • But there’s a reason Bob Cousy, the doyen of point guards, doubted him.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
  • This one felt different, and not just because the Celtics paid tribute to the late Bill Russell and played in the dominant doyen’s honor.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Trump and Leo built an unlikely alliance that would benefit both the politician and the legal doyen.
    Tessa Berenson, Time, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Flash forward to 2019, and the current doyen of the family business, Ben, has made his triumphant return to the chi-chi vacation spot.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 6 May 2019
  • These are the questions that, over the past decade or so, jazz listeners have watched Salvant — now 30, and the unrivaled doyen of young jazz vocalists — work through.
    New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Luckily, Duke doyen Mike Krzyzewski sees the light where some of his football counterparts don’t.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The doyens of the European Union are also breathing a sigh of relief after Mattarella's intervention.
    Tim Lister, CNN, 28 May 2018
  • The fashion doyen returns the favor, dominating the film with his sheer force of personality.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Surely a follow-up story would soon appear, explaining that Cruz was not a mere coach but the doyen of the LD national circuit, and that its mores had played into his predation.
    Tess McNulty, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • Only under George Balanchine, the doyen of American ballet, did sylphlike figures become the norm.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 9 June 2022
  • In the face of a deficit of tens of thousands of votes in a close count following Peru’s June 6 presidential election, Keiko Fujimori, the 46-year-old doyen of a right-wing political dynasty, declined to concede.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
  • Wolfe, who died Monday at age 88, was known as a dandified doyen of the New Journalism, a reporter who embedded with hippies and race car drivers and astronauts, and later as a grandiose novelist.
    Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 15 May 2018
  • For the eternally young doyen of the Broadway musical, even revivals were an opportunity for trying something new.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • In a nation where laws permit any citizen to file lawsuits against anyone perceived of immorality or tarnishing the country’s image, the 69-year-old lawyer is the profession’s doyen.
    Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Only Andersson, the doyen of inaction movies, could offer beatitudes to the ineffectual and the zonked.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Kositza has become the face and voice of the publishing house, reviewing books and promoting Antaios’s new releases on her YouTube channel, while Kubitschek is one of its ideological doyens.
    Sumi Somaskanda, The Atlantic, 22 June 2017
  • Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Andrei Kolesnikov as a former doyen of the Kremlin press pool.
    Newsweek, 8 June 2015
  • The doyen of Labour’s energy policy is not Clement Attlee, the prime minister who nationalised Britain’s fractured array of public and private energy suppliers.
    The Economist, 3 May 2018

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