How to Use press agent in a Sentence

press agent

noun
  • The press agent Sy Presten is an old hand in the gossip business.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Pat Newcomb, Monroe's close friend and press agent, said the two had plans to go to the movies the next day.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Sep. 2022
  • More than just a journalist on the story, Smith was counselor, bodyguard and press agent.
    Herb Boyd, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • From 1953 until his death, Charlie was known as the dean of old-fashioned South Florida press agents.
    Steve Rothaus, miamiherald, 11 June 2018
  • An all-powerful New York gossip columnist gives a press agent some dirty work.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • One interview that really hit him hard was with a woman who worked as their press agent.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Paul Wasserman, the bearded ironist who is the head press agent for the tour, managed to sneak a handful of visitors into the Garden.
    Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Instead, the 17-year-old wed Hughes’ press agent, Pasquale di Cicco, prompting her aunt to cut Gloria out of her will.
    Ula Ilnytzky, Fortune, 17 June 2019
  • Shortly afterward, both his mother and his press agent, a close friend, also died.
    New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Hirschfeld had begun drawing drama-page art for newspapers in the 1920s, thanks to a press agent who spotted his sketching and smartly took it to the New York Herald Tribune.
    Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • Additionally, platforms like TikTok have allowed creators to present their culture and share recipes without the lens of a press agent.
    Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The court also affirms that Kesha’s text to Lady Gaga was a defamatory statement, and that Kesha can be held liable for statements made by her lawyer and press agent.
    Amanda Gordon, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
  • His press agent, Shelley Saltman, was explaining that the amateurs who compete in the celebrity pro-amateur phase of the tournament will receive the equivalent of $150 in merchandise.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2022

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