How to Use essayist in a Sentence

essayist

noun

• Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author, essayist, and one of our most celebrated living writers.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
• Initially coined by the essayist Hu Wenhui, this term adopts the metaphor of a basketball game when one side has amassed so many points that the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• The poet and essayist, also known as LeRoi Jones, died in 2014.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
• Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist living in New York.
  — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
• The novelist rings at the door and spirits you off; the essayist invites herself in.
  — Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
• Pinned to the wall is a note from his mother that quotes his favorite essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a thank-you card from a fan.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 8 May 2023
• Then there are the urgings for calm, from politicians as well as faraway essayists.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 24 May 2017
• At a time when the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war, our essayist, a diplomat, found hope in an unlikely place.
  — Peter Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022
• Other young essayists really just wanted to visit the State House and meet Healey in the flesh.
  — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• An instant classic — every essayist needs to pay attention to the best in the game.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 7 Feb. 2022
• Janet Malcolm, an essayist and journalist known for her work in The New Yorker, has died.
  — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2021
• The essayists are clear-eyed about the power that mythology has over reason.
  — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
• David Lucas, a poet and essayist, is a lapsed Catholic who has become a regular at the Passover Seder held by friends.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 17 Apr. 2022
• And sports writing lost some grace with the death of Frank Deford, the Sports Illustrated essayist.
  — Fred Lief, Houston Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
• An essayist of uncommon depth and breadth, O’Toole is a Dubliner known for his work on Ireland.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
• Rachel Fairbank is a science writer and essayist based in west Texas.
  — Rachel Fairbank, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2022
• The next meeting, April 10, will feature essayist and author Sara Marchant.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• James McElroy is a novelist and essayist based in New York.
  — James McElroy, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
• Kael, who died in 2001, was not just a critic but also an essayist and novelist.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
• The poet and essayist Maggie Smith has been my back-pocket companion for the past year of the pandemic.
  — Sophy Chaffee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
• It was named after a theater club started by British essayist Charles Lamb.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
• Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist and columnist for the Nation.
  — Katha Pollitt, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet and essayist in St. Paul.
  — Michael Kleber-Diggs Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Today, Tolstoy remains one of the world’s most renowned authors; the French poet and essayist Prudhomme, much less so.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 8 Jan. 2020
• But as some of our nonfiction essayists point out, the economy of water in space will always stay in space.
  — Ed Finn, Slate Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
• Early is an essayist and the editor of the Common Reader.
  — Gerald Early, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• The renowned essayist returns to the Soraya in Northridge to read wildly varied anecdotes from his memoirs and diaries.
  — Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 Apr. 2018
• Beach is a talented essayist with a promising career ahead of her.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Like Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, the essayist lights out for the territories, never sure of the next sentence until the words show up on the page.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
• Your pole tip could bend in the next second – or in a second that won’t happen till tomorrow, essayist Murr Brewster writes.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024