How to Use pied piper in a Sentence

pied piper

noun

• The players are coming to Austin, Texas, thanks to a 17-year-old pied piper by the name of Arch Manning.
  — Cedric Golden, USA TODAY, 5 July 2022
• Hip-hop was no longer a secret rhythm for inner-city blues but a pied piper for the rebel and the thinker in all classes, creeds and countries.
  — Zandile Blay, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
• But the Leipolds of the future continuing to act as pied piper to players who want to move up to a Power 5?
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 June 2021
• In what seems like a lifetime ago, McDougal was the pied piper of barefoot-style running.
  — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2022
• The upset was all the more surprising because Djokovic had spent the week becoming the pied piper of the Tokyo Olympics, and the strategy seemed to be working.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 July 2021
• With Butler serving as the pied piper, Arcade Fire was lit up by camera flashes as fans flooded the sidewalk to document the vagabonds.
  — Ilana Kaplan, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2022
• Instead, led by a coterie of ladies who look like they got lost en route to a Death Cab for Cutie show, the crowd fervently shouts along, eventually drowning out the 31-year-old pied piper onstage.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
• Forced into the political wilderness, much of Siege feels like a relevance play—Bannon using Wolff to cast himself as Trump’s pied piper.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
• The pied piper of St. Paul’s baseball funhouse was cracking wise about the 20-year warranty on his new ceramic hip when a middle-aged couple in Saints gear interrupted the team’s co-owner and founder to demand a bear hug.
  — Brian Murphy, Twin Cities, 18 May 2017
• This had a pied piper effect — visitors curious about where the band might be headed naturally followed.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• During which time, R. Kelly hid in plain sight, calling himself the pied piper — a fictional character who lured and kidnapped children with his flute — by preying on Black women, men, and children.
  — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
• Historically, however, one of the groups isn’t a loose amalgamation of strangers on the internet, nor is it led into battle in part by a pied piper who calls himself Roaring Kitty and streams investment hot takes from his basement.
  — Emily Stewart, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
• Paul Eschenfelder has become somewhat of a pied piper, another voice trumpeting the Cypress Creek flooding debacle, the number one issue with many residents who live near the waterway in one of the largest watersheds in the county.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024