How to Use fourth estate in a Sentence

fourth estate

noun

• The extreme rhetoric is not confined to the fourth estate.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• The press, sometimes called the fourth estate, owned the most fitting location in town, 4th and State.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2019
• No one is spared from the poking and prodding of the fourth estate, one of the vital checks of a democracy.
  — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 12 June 2018
• America needs the fourth estate at its very best right now.
  — Ken Langone, National Review, 22 Apr. 2020
• It’s about the difference between state media and the fourth estate.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2020
• That’s par for the course with Harbaugh, who never reveals much about the Wolverines and has long had little patience with the fourth estate.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2020
• In other words, native ads are a critical support line to the fourth estate.
  — Justin Choi, Philly.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• And he's never expressed some deeply held reverence for the fourth estate's role in our democracy.
  — Sam Stecklow, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• That’s all of one minute and five seconds, and that’s how deft and smooth Garbus is in defining the two great forces — Trump and the Times, the executive branch of government and the fourth estate — that will do battle in this series.
  — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2018
• As election day nears, he's redoubled his efforts bashing the fourth estate, research by Sugars has shown.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 25 Oct. 2020
• McCain has also had a famously warm relationship with the fourth estate.
  — Fox News, 28 May 2018
• In pushing boundaries and testing them, Trump has really revitalized the fourth estate.
  — Gregory Cowles, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• The media attacks had backfired, creating more sympathy for Trump among party members whose distrust of the fourth estate was deeper than ever.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 23 July 2018
• Of course, the British monarch's message didn't directly address any of these issues, and could be seen as entirely independent from them—a simple message of support for the fourth estate in the middle of a global crisis.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 6 Oct. 2020
• There has of late been a melding of two of his favorite targets, the Mueller investigation and the fourth estate, which Donald Trump apparently views as reinforcing each other.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 1 June 2018
• At a press conference, a swarthy member of the fourth estate launches into a fiery Bolshevik speech about the unemployed, but Hammond rejects pleas for presidential action.
  — Thomas Doherty, Slate Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017
• When the fourth estate – as the independent press has been historically known – collapses into dust, who becomes the guardian of public integrity?
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 3 July 2019
• While conservatives might celebrate the public’s rejection of the media, the fact that Americans are unable to trust the fourth estate as a reliable source of information during a time of crisis is a problem.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
• April 4, National Hug a Newsperson Day, was a nice thought, even as the media industry was roiled by mass layoffs, budget cuts, and an exodus of advertiser money, leaving the fourth estate on even shakier ground than usual.
  — Kim Kelly, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2020
• The Post brings a historical perspective, a reminder of the importance of the fourth estate by demonstrating its objective necessity in our society.
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• In configuring itself around loci of legislative authority, the fourth estate follows certain rules.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 June 2017
• Lastly, Saturday night, after yet another tragic day in America, with a murderous shooting in a California synagogue, the president once again vilified the fourth estate.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2019
• There is definitely an appropriate time to be an objective observer, but as long as journalists are transparent about their experience when disseminating information, there should be no shame in being equal parts human and fourth estate.
  — Sara Li, Teen Vogue, 6 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024