How to Use iconoclast in a Sentence

iconoclast

noun

• For those of you who don’t know who Dave Stevens is, perhaps the best way to describe him is as a true iconoclast.
  — Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Branson, an iconoclast with a ski slope of white hair, wanted his cruise line to stand out from the other fish in the sea.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
• Loverboy’s Charles Jeffrey is a dyed-in-the-wool iconoclast.
  — Vogue, 11 June 2018
• Journalism was once the province of the iconoclasts, but no longer.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• In place of the images the iconoclasts destroyed, new and inventive art grew.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• Fellow iconoclast Ted Turner, then the owner of the Atlanta Braves, gave him a shot in 1978.
  — oregonlive.com, 11 July 2019
• The rest of the concert honored Arnold Schoenberg in the breach, via that iconoclast’s student and mentor.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
• There aren't too many iconoclasts left in the rock realm, but Roger Waters is assuredly one of them.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 31 May 2017
• And like Kerouac, Joe was an iconoclast, his own guy, always on the road, searching.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• Lou Reed was an iconoclast, an innovator, a man ahead of his time.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 23 Oct. 2017
• So to shine a glittery spotlight on the new species, Morris named it after one of music's great iconoclasts.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Mar. 2020
• Tillman was an iconoclast of the first order, no question.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 2 Feb. 2020
• Since then, a number of iconoclasts ranging from Andy Warhol to Elvis Presley have sworn by specific ways to stay trim.
  — Allie Conti, Marie Claire, 5 Oct. 2018
• Dave Soldier is an iconoclast, trying to expand our idea of what music can be.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The 72-year-old iconoclast hadn’t seen the show in production before Saturday night.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
• For the past few years, the museum has opened its doors to a specific generation of iconoclasts.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• In fact, Brown was a seductive iconoclast with a Katharine Hepburn mane and a compulsion for ignoring the rules.
  — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• Bauer, while very talented, is an iconoclast and a parting was inevitable at some point.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• Nothing Compares tells the story of O’Connor’s life as a musician, mother, and iconoclast in her own words.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
• There is, though, the joy and cockeyed logic that only the iconoclast understands and figures out how to use for his benefit.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• Not all the old folks have died off yet, and even among the young there are a few iconoclasts who reject this technological manna from heaven.
  — Tony Long, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2006
• Martha, an iconoclast, landscaped in the style of Japanese gardens.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2023
• Still, for buyers looking for a plug-in hybrid with concept-car looks, the Karma remains an iconoclast's choice.
  — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2021
• The Clam Shack’s roll is a delicious iconoclast, eschewing the classic split-top bun for a round, locally baked yeast roll.
  — Virginia M. Wright, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
• And Hector is an iconoclast and a rebel within the establishment.
  — Emily Zemler, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• In the end, Houellebecq comes across not as a brave iconoclast, nor as a serious conservative thinker, but as a cranky old white man yelling at those kids across the Atlantic to get off his lawn.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• Nicks is a devotee of love and an iconoclast; her evocative lyrics are both mythic and grounded in reality.
  — Coralie Kraft, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2023
• Maddon, who now guides the Chicago Cubs, is the original iconoclast among modern managers.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
• His characters have always been cut from a certain kind of cloth — funny, high-I.Q. urban cool cats and iconoclasts and loners.
  — Kurt Andersen, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2016
• Every one of these women is a low-key iconoclast with an Instagram-worthy sense of style that’s too cool for Instagram.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 10 June 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024