How to Use kingmaker in a Sentence

kingmaker

noun

• But that’s just the start of Michaels’s role as a kingmaker.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 June 2023
• The bulls of the AI world—and its current kingmakers—still hold the high ground.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 29 Feb. 2024
• That likely sets up the TPP, with 8 seats, as the kingmakers.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 13 Jan. 2024
• The first major test of Trump as a sort of kingmaker, right?
  — ABC News, 8 May 2022
• It’s always nice to see stand-up on The Tonight Show, which used to be the kingmaker for comedy.
  — Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022
• Or Shaked could emerge as a kingmaker, just as Bennett did.
  — Joseph Krauss, ajc, 29 June 2022
• Fritz: At the 2009 World Championships in Rome, the super suits were kingmakers.
  — Outside Online, 24 July 2024
• The brothers were both kingmakers in their own right, raking in awards and millions at the box office.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2017
• The first is that Mr Di Maio wants not to be kingmaker but king, though that may be tactical bluster.
  — The Economist, 11 Apr. 2018
• Kan predicted that the right-wing bloc would have 56 seats to 54 for the left wing, leaving Liberman as kingmaker.
  — Marcy Oster, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Turnout was low and the Kurds did well, becoming kingmakers in the new parliament.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• The three agents have always been kingmakers in this town, but Lourd in the past decade has emerged as an industry statesman.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• The anti-oil party, the Greens, failed to win enough votes to become the potential kingmaker.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
• This looks to have wrecked the media mogul’s hopes of playing the kingmaker by flagging a premier if his party won more votes than the League.
  — Bloomberg.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• What better way for the master of memes to go viral, the king becoming a kingmaker.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• While TikTok is full of flashy trends and famous names, its real kingmaker is its code.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 24 Feb. 2021
• Frankel plays Criston Cole, a dashing knight who rises to become a kingmaker.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2022
• The success has empowered Pureval to embrace a kingmaker role in the party.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2019
• The sentence all but ensures that the disgraced Hollywood kingmaker will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• The president seems acutely aware that his ability to play kingmaker is on the line.
  — Clare Foran, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• T-Mobile has become the prize, what some have called a kingmaker for the industry’s future.
  — Mark Davis, kansascity.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• And while Trump may still be a kingmaker for some, his endorsement doesn't equate to a sure path to victory either.
  — Bybrittany Shepherd, ABC News, 17 May 2022
• If a minority government emerges, the big question is who will be kingmaker, the Bloc or the New Democrats, Nanos said.
  — Rob Gillies, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2019
• The incident is also a blow to Musk, who could have been seen as a new Republican kingmaker if the event had gone as planned.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 May 2023
• Trump's role as kingmaker during the GOP primaries is also coming back to haunt him.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2022
• Her legacy is prolific first as a kingmaker and later as the wife of Zengi.
  — Katherine Pangonis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• But Rodgers wanted to be kingmaker and was shocked when the Packers were no longer interested.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
• But by the 2010s, Sony had mostly given up playing the kingmaker for kiddie-heroes.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
• His gains in the polls have positioned him to be a political kingmaker.
  — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• Through these proxies, the mullahs became the kingmakers of Iraq’s factious politics.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024