How to Use newspaperman in a Sentence

newspaperman

noun
  • And this from the son of legendary newspaperman Arthur Gelb.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • This nobody was not a newspaperman in any real sense of the word.
    Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
  • The origin of that name dates back to 1875, and a newspaperman who had a grudge against the city, the Minor Baseball League reports.
    Grace Noble, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • One of Barrett's last requests was that newspapermen be called to his cell.
    Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2014
  • The meeting was held in the office of the irreverent ex-newspaperman and Nixon aide Lyn Nofziger.
    Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 20 June 2018
  • Still, when a newspaperman gets the chance to accept the credit the winning coach awarded him with a sarcastic smirk, take it, take it, take it.
    Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • And, after this, Jerry terHorst went back to being a newspaperman, and a damn good one.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 Jan. 2017
  • That alone is one of the reasons Guinn, a former newspaperman, revels in the work of a nonfiction author.
    Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Donald Trump falls off the list for the first time, as does newspaperman Ralph M. Ingersoll—both saddled with huge debt from junk bond binges.
    Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The Rothschild house and grounds were under siege from a small army of newspapermen, mainly from America.
    Andrew Morton, Town & Country, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Using the just-the-facts voice of an ace newspaperman, Machen proceeds to report on a series of uncanny events around a small Welsh village.
    Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020
  • Words to live by, especially coming from a great newspaperman with ink in his veins.
    Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The newspaperman and author specialized in streetwise tales of New York City.
    oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Born the son of a Montana newspaperman, Scanlan started in the carnival business while in high school in Arizona.
    Bradley Zint, Daily Pilot, 13 July 2017
  • But a newspaperman has habits and instincts that can bring clarity.
    Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Aug. 2017
  • More than just a newspaperman, Lee was also an attorney, having read for the bar without going to law school.
    Danny Heitman, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • At the heart of the property is the Rhoads house, named for a newspaperman instrumental in the development of the community.
    Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • This was in 1971 and my father, Herman, was nearby, sitting with his friend, fellow newspaperman Robert Cromie.
    Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • One winter day, a newspaperman saw her shooting ... alone.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Payne graduated from UConn in 1964 with dreams of working as a newspaperman.
    Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • His newspaperman father had decided to switch careers and bought an AM radio station in the small city of Kinston, about four hours east of Charlotte.
    Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The former newspaperman said Danny’s body had been laying in view at Jack Lee’s funeral home for two weeks in case somebody could recognize the boy.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Later a newspaperman spent time at the Volker Park fountain, a budding hangout for guitar strummers and free spirits.
    Rick Montgomery, kansascity.com, 2 June 2017
  • Mr Nolan, a third-generation newspaperman, took over the business in March, when his father retired to Florida.
    The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • But following the death of legendary newspaperman Mike Royko in 1997, it was determined that Kass would be more of an asset to the Republican-leaning daily as a columnist.
    John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
  • But most of them were little kids playing, rock musicians, a few hippies and radio, television and newspapermen.
    Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Newspapermen, academics, left-leaning media critics, and right-leaning digital news sites argued that the stories were a bridge too far.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Now in his late 80s, Evans emerged from a working-class Welsh family in the provincial north of England to make his reputation as an ambitious young newspaperman.
    Jim Holt, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • Tom Gregory, a newspaperman for four decades, was a gruff editor who bestrode the newsroom like an emperor, wielding his pica pole – the ruler used to measure stories – like a scepter.
    John Pope, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The film follows Audrey Hepburn, who plays a European princess who falls for an American newspaperman while taking a break from her official goodwill tour.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023

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