How to Use guest of honor in a Sentence

guest of honor

noun phrase
  • Quibi’s foray into the short-content realm was akin to the latecomer at a party—not exactly crashing it, but certainly not the guest of honor.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024
  • This year, longtime Southampton resident Chuck Scarborough was a guest of honor.
    Nancy Kane, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
  • The Louisville native has been the guest of honor this week.
    Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
  • As the guest of honor, I was instructed to cut off the cheeks and pass them to the other guests.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
  • If their name is Stew or Stu, they’ll be anointed a guest of honor.
    Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
  • The placement of three stools at center stage — for Nelson and his sons — signaled the arrival of the guest of honor.
    Thom Duffy, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The party’s menu included fresh corn with pesto butter, which was a hit with the guest of honor.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Uma Thurman, clad in a baby blue trench coat, acted as guest of honor.
    Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
  • James Gandolfini was scheduled to be a guest of honor, but the actor died in Rome on his way to Taormina.
    Ilaria Ravarino, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • As the evening’s guest of honor, Loren sat in the first row, accompanied by Ponti and his wife Sasha Alexander.
    Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The guest of honor for the event was Milwaukee's biggest celebrity of the age, Liberace.
    Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2024
  • And don’t forget to deck out the guest of honor in a thematic bodysuit or full outfit to match the galactic theme.
    Marisa Iallonardo, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Then, in 2010, a group of zookeepers invited her to attend a conference in Phoenix as their guest of honor.
    Clay Risen, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The guest of honor this week is Sara, a woman who just got divorced and wants to celebrate by burning her wedding dress.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2024
  • The guest of honor gave him her ultimate 2023 compliment: Mitchell gently but firmly banged her wolf’s-head cane on the stage in time to the music.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • Prior to Starr and Walsh making a few remarks and the guest of honor cutting a cake, there were a few performances of Starr’s classic songs.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 7 July 2023
  • Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad will be the guest of honor.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In fact, the real-life English, who was a guest of honor for opening night, got the most enthusiastic applause of the evening.
    IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2015
  • Dolphins wide receiver Jaylen Waddle was the guest of honor.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2024
  • It has been confirmed that the guest of honor King Charles will be in attendance amid his cancer treatment, alongside Queen Camilla.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • While such events are typically held for only one guest of honor, this is for two former co-workers.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Streep, meanwhile, returned to the festival for the first time since 1989 as the guest of honor to receive an honorary Palme d’Or for her prolific and varied career.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
  • Before the evening came to a close, Paltrow gave a special mention to her mother Blythe Danner, perhaps the unofficial guest of honor.
    Vogue, 17 July 2023
  • After that, Modi will be a guest of honor at a state dinner, only the third head of state to receive such an honor during Biden’s presidency.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 22 June 2023
  • The guest of honor was Dita Von Teese, who surprised guests by closing the runway show with her iconic Champagne glass striptease on the venue’s hydraulic stage, complete with a working fountain.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 27 June 2024
  • The guest of honor, however, was the Hollywood sign, perfectly positioned in the distance between the palms of South Windsor Boulevard.
    Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2023
  • He has also been feted as guest of honor at Cannes Classics, the selection dedicated to heritage films.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 May 2024
  • The attendees: Bharti Pasricha, whose guest of honor was her mother, Nyna Mittal, 63, invited 20 friends and their plus ones.
    Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The actor/director was the guest of honor recently at a celebration held on the Spanish island of Ibiza, where he was joined by wife Rita Ora and several friends.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The charity uses Anne Frank’s life and diary to educate and empower young people to challenge prejudice and discrimination, and Camilla was the guest of honor at the trust’s annual lunch in 2022.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024

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