How to Use figurehead in a Sentence

figurehead

noun

• The king is merely a figurehead; the government is really run by elected officials.
• Maguire will serve as the wine brand’s main figurehead.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2022
• And what of those who surround the Queen, the accoutrements to the figurehead?
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 9 Dec. 2017
• Big Tex, the 55-foot-tall figurehead of the State Fair of Texas, is standing tall once again.
  — Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2022
• In the absence of its figurehead, the restaurant was soon crushed by debt, to the point of closing.
  — Mayukh Sen, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Whether the queen played a part or not, Gardy still sees her as the figurehead of a country that gave him a new life.
  — Jean-Nicholas Fievet, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2022
• Prigozhin has been its figurehead only for the past two years.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• This meant that Ashley Williams took over as the Wolves' figurehead.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2022
• But the past decade saw the DJ go from a skilled master selector to more of a figurehead.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2017
• Charles is no longer the man who talks to his plants but the figurehead who must keep the kingdom whole during a tricky time.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• Of unearthing the figurehead of a ship that was supposed to have sunk hundreds of miles away?
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• For more than a year, he’s been in a spotlight of his own making, both a pariah and a figurehead.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• Emily Adams Bode and Aaron Aujla, who are featured in the book, are figureheads of this.
  — Curbed, 16 June 2023
• The ship featured two decks, a chapel for mass and a golden lion figurehead.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2022
• Or an enabling figurehead who sat astride the sins of empire?
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
• The moral glow of Atticus Finch propelled Peck to a new role as civic figurehead.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
• This also seems to mean that to take the polar bear as the figurehead of the crisis is to accept that the crisis is systemic.
  — Katherine Cusumano, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2021
• Zimmerman is the figurehead, the living statue in the back of the clubhouse, the local kid who was the franchise's first hope.
  — Chelsea Janes, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• Coleman challenged Douglas to serve on the board as more than just a figurehead.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2020
• And thus far as a senior, she’s pushed Ontario Christian to a 6-2 record, the figurehead of a Knights team that loves to swing the ball and bomb away from distance.
  — Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• That’s part of his aesthetic as a leader (to fans) and a figurehead (to investors).
  — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 19 July 2018
• Regardless of what the issue is, figureheads emerge who sort of carry the torch.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• As a figurehead, Ms. Wintour was still shrouded in an Oz-like sense of mystery and fear.
  — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 21 Sep. 2017
• This is perhaps thanks to the hot tub that serves as something of a figurehead of the ship, bubbling steam from the frontmost point of the deck like a beacon in the distance.
  — Shannon McMahon, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2022
• Retail investors saw him as a figurehead who was on their side.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 8 June 2023
• The best moments in the film are the handful of scenes that offer some impression of Kennedy as a person rather than as a figurehead, or a scion.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2018
• Carter was never a remote figurehead with the Guinea worm program, Weiss said.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
• Though, Swansea will be reluctant to let Mawson, a key figurehead at the club go in any part-exchange deal.
  — SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Borg, who has been with Neom since its launch in 2019, has been a figurehead and chief advocate for the media industries aspect of project, regularly fronting networking events and speaking on panels at film and TV markets.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
• The far-right figurehead later admitted to posting a fake photograph purporting to show violence by a Muslim gang.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024