How to Use master of ceremonies in a Sentence

master of ceremonies

noun phrase
  • For the fourth year in a row, Trevor Noah will be master of ceremonies.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Her father, who is now 99, was a master of ceremonies there.
    Kaitlyn Schwanemann, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Phillip Blanchett, who is master of ceremonies at NYO, grew up competing in the games in the 1980s before the vertical form was the norm.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Bob Hope holds the record for the most times as the Oscars' master of ceremonies at 19, but hosts now rarely return to emcee after their first or second time.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Yoshida was a celebrity in the yakuza world, famous for his skills as a master of ceremonies in yakuza rituals.
    Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Finally, the writer Pete Hamill, the master of ceremonies, said there was one more guest.
    James Barron, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • Lujack was the master of ceremonies for the Heisman Trophy for more than a dozen years and remained active in the Iowa dealership.
    Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • This is the 20th consecutive year Seacrest has been the master of ceremonies for the highest-rated of all New Year’s Eve programming.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Momoa will be the week’s recurring master of ceremonies, dipping in and out of the channel’s roughly 20 new hours of programs that start Sunday.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 23 July 2023
  • Collectors took turns handing over ancient 78s to a master of ceremonies who laid them reverently on the turntable.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Award-winning journalist Katie Couric serves as master of ceremonies.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Mauer and fellow inductees Adrian Beltré and Todd Helton will be introduced by a master of ceremonies.
    John Shipley, Twin Cities, 8 June 2024
  • Bruce acted as the night’s master of ceremonies and led guests through an hour-long program filled with montages of the Three’s Company star’s career, family toasts and other performances.
    Stacy Lambe, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And that host is Survivor master of ceremonies and orange hat enthusiast Jeff Probst.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 June 2023
  • Comedian and actor Kevin Hart served as master of ceremonies.
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 2 June 2023
  • This year, under the sweltering sun, master of ceremonies George Shea barraged the crowd with entertainment leading up to the competition.
    Ashley Markle, Bon Appétit, 5 July 2024
  • Comedian, actor, entertainer and producer Bob Hope was the master of ceremonies for the first televised award show in 1953.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The title character is our master of ceremonies, consistently busting the fourth wall to needle the audience.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • The Kit Kat Club’s master of ceremonies is a kind of Mephistopheles, and also—if an actor really nails it—a sinister mirage of ambiguity.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
  • And that was something where Puffy really was adept at being this incredible dot connector, master of ceremonies.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Cal Williams, who served as master of ceremonies Wednesday, said having a place for seniors to congregate is an invaluable community asset.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • The master of ceremonies booms into the mic, announcing the evening’s solidarity raffle with an effortless cadence.
    Mariana Martínez Barba, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • Her son Bruce acted as the night’s master of ceremonies and led guests through an hour-long program filled with montages of the Three’s Company star’s career, family toasts and performances, videos of her singing and other family photos and memories.
    Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
  • America's most famous-ish cheater joins 20 other contestants for a third outing of Peacock's Emmy-winning series, with the players announced by the master of ceremonies himself, Alan Cumming.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 5 June 2024
  • Cairo, the event’s master of ceremonies, will be joined by keynote speaker and restaurant sustainability advocate Anthony Myint.
    Mrussell, oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2023
  • McDaniel’s innovation and entrepreneurship faculty adviser and economics and business administration lecturer Kathleen Pratt will serve as master of ceremonies.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 21 May 2024
  • As master of ceremonies, Cumming oversees all the deception and deceit with undeniable flair, all while wearing a dizzying array of Tartan-print outfits and toting around his rescue dog Lala.
    Samantha Allen, Them, 17 July 2024

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