How to Use lede in a Sentence

lede

noun

• Way to bury the lede in the Sports section of the March 17 issue of the Star Tribune.
  — Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• No need to bury the lede here: Harry Styles will serve as co-chair for the 2019 Met Gala.
  — Ella Cerón, Teen Vogue, 9 Oct. 2018
• People know how to write a lede in a certain kind of way.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2022
• There was no rifling left for roughly an inch ahead of the lede.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020
• The post’s lede cuts right to the chase in identifying the problem.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Save the ever-present rumble of the train, Fuller’s lede plays out as a wordless dance of the Big City.
  — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• NBC News may have just buried the lede in its new story about the Russia scandal.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
• One of them was a woman in Seattle, who ended up in my lede.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 27 Oct. 2021
• Mice seem to be appearing in headlines, ledes, and tweets at a higher rate.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 15 June 2019
• With a lede like that, a story promises to be riveting.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2023
• And what is not to love about an essay about cheap Italian food that begins with a long lede about Gauguin?
  — Longreads, 3 Oct. 2017
• The thing about feelings is, the anecdotal lede is all about inciting a feeling.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 25 Mar. 2018
• Dylan can write what journalists call a great lede: a first sentence that detonates like a hand grenade.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Deputy Managing Editor Yesha Callahan is gonna be mad at this short-ass lede, but today there’s no need to pussyfoot around.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2018
• And that’s burying the lede: The Ravens are still awaiting the return of franchise quarterback Lamar Jackson, who has played just one quarter over the last three games because of a knee injury.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2022
• Screenshots of Wolken’s headline and lede are commonplace on his social media feeds.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 29 Sep. 2021
• The lede teases what’s to come with the perfect blend of structural simplicity and thematic nuance.
  — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
• Seyward’s piece has a very metaphorical lede involving the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
  — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
• Here’s the lede from the Post: President Trump revealed highly classified information to the...
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 16 May 2017
• Leaving Colin Kaepernick off the cover of their unity issue is an egregious example of burying the lede.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 28 Sep. 2017
• From the lede, which introduced a compelling subject who refused to be interviewed, to the graphics that helped readers keep up with the many characters, the stories connected all the dots.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2022
• Most writers are intimately familiar with the near-impossible task of writing a compelling lede — the first few lines of a story designed to hook the reader and draw them in.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2021
• Right-wing outlets spurted out stories with headlines and story ledes that were sure to inflame the growing anti-CNN faction of the American electorate.
  — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 1 Dec. 2017
• The lede is essentially describing an earthquake that happened in 1994.
  — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
• It’s packaged with confident wit and vivid, sensory prose (check out that lede), and Rogers finds space to take in a brief history of distillation and a look at the dying art of mycology.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2011
• Representatives for those mentioned would doubtless argue that some cherry-picking went into that news lede.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 June 2021

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024