How to Use shutterbug in a Sentence

shutterbug

noun
  • Record snowfall in Reykjavík shut schools and roads, and eager shutterbugs captured the event.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2017
  • And her latest shutterbug of choice is none other than her daughter North West.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 6 June 2022
  • The shutterbug snapped a pic of him as NYPD officers escorted him away.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Is there any subtle and graceful way to deter these shutterbugs?
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 June 2019
  • Make like a Duchess and embrace your own inner shutterbug with a user-friendly camera like this one.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 22 July 2022
  • The prism lets shutterbugs see beyond the edges of the final image, allowing them to spy subjects and better plan pictures.
    Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2019
  • When stars like the Star Island rap mogul mix it up with shutterbugs, the amount of money recovered by the victims is usually kept under wraps.
    Jose Lambiet, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
  • The village of Morton Grove is looking for shutterbugs who can capture in pictures a town moniker that is part of a summer photo contest.
    Libby Elliott, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2017
  • The 70-some installations and interactives on our city streets provide a bright background for the cell phone shutterbug, from the banks of the river to Findlay Market.
    Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Over the years, the blessing has become a highly coveted photo op for pet-owning shutterbugs.
    Carlos Lozano, latimes.com, 15 Apr. 2017
  • In February 1983, two months before its public debut, the museum invited all budding shutterbugs to bring photos to the museum and pin them to the walls.
    Karla Peterson, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Obsessive amateur photographers can get a few pointers on their own back-roads tour with a pro shutterbug.
    Alison Humes, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • On Thursday, Kim shared yet another topless photo, along with a caption revealing that the shutterbug is none other than 4-year-old daughter North West.
    Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The Salisbury, England native trained as a photographer and eventually landed his dream job -- staff shutterbug for a group of safari camps in East Africa.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Go on a shutterbug-friendly slow nature hike with the resident naturalists who can point out the local flora and fauna, along with cool facts about their biology.
    Lori Keong, Marie Claire, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Your average shutterbug would be hard-pressed to tell the difference, simply because both phones’ cameras are remarkably capable for a smartphone.
    Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The pink sand and mountainous backdrop will keep shutterbugs happy, while active types can partake in surfing, kiteboarding, or windsurfing.
    Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
  • His father, Thomas, was an amateur shutterbug who’d briefly run a professional portrait studio.
    Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2021
  • For your favorite shutterbug who wants the option to print their own digital photos, Canon’s portable Ivy photo printer easily syncs to smartphones and produces pocket-sized images.
    Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2022
  • Echograph grew out of his interest in Lomography and other old-school photo techniques that encouraged shutterbugs to choose images carefully, with a story in mind, rather than shooting mindlessly.
    Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 5 June 2012
  • Today, the couple work as professional photographers and host their own successful shutterbug YouTube channel.
    Luke Winkie, Vox, 5 July 2019
  • Like fellow royal shutterbug Kate Middleton, Princess Victoria captures all of her children’s special moments.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • For increasing numbers of digital shutterbugs, reality is not real unless it is photographed.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Most people use smartphones for everyday snapshots, so camera makers have largely moved on to interchangeable-lens models or expensive compacts with oversized sensors and manual control schemes to satisfy shutterbugs.
    PCMAG, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The latest in a seemingly endless procession of documentaries about shutterbugs, The Incomparable Rose Hartman doesn’t quite make the case for lengthily profiling its irascible and not particularly interesting subject.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017

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