How to Use tribune in a Sentence

tribune

noun
  • He wasn’t stretchered out of the media tribune until well after the game had ended.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Trump was the tribune of those who felt betrayed and misled and mistreated.
    Time, 14 Jan. 2023
  • At the competition on Monday, there were twice as many requests for seats in the press tribune as there were seats.
    New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Johnson has become a tribune of the people, without a people.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 6 June 2022
  • The tribune of empire, Rudyard Kipling, composed two poems for the occasion.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2022
  • For months in Petrograd, and all over Russia, every street-corner was a public tribune.
    Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
  • The man who put aside his comfortable life of wealth and private enterprise to become a tribune to the common man has been terribly wronged himself.
    Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
  • And nobody wants to die alone, 7,000 miles from home, in a stadium media tribune surrounded by colleagues.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Wyler's epic drama tells the story of an aristocratic Jew living in Judea who incurs the wrath of a childhood friend who has become a Roman tribune.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In addition, the team found evidence of a wooden post for a seat that a tribune, or Roman official, would have occupied.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Carson, a Dublin lawyer, rapidly became the political tribune of Ulster’s resistance to Home Rule and then its will for self-government.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 8 July 2022
  • Greeley’s Tribune and Greeley the tribune would rise together over the next 30 years, paper and person often indistinguishable.
    James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
  • By publishing the generals’ tribune on April 21, Valeurs Actuelles had picked another landmark date in contemporary French history.
    Harrison Stetler, The New Republic, 24 May 2021
  • He’s joined by Florida Republican Marco Rubio, who lately has rebranded himself as a pro-union tribune.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Los Angeles Times staff were among the journalists who watched paramedics treat Wahl for approximately 30 minutes after his collapse in the media tribune late Friday before removing him from the stadium on a stretcher.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Newsmax is an unusual tribune for baseless accusations of voter fraud.
    John Koblin, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Hadrian benefited from his mentor’s successes and took on various roles and duties—from military tribune to praetor to consul.
    History Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Protestant evangelicalism, meanwhile, spread rapidly across the land, its tribunes preaching adherence to patriarchal gender norms, promoting the pursuit of prosperity, and increasingly urging their flocks to vote Republican.
    Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
  • He wasn’t stretchered out of the media tribune until well after the game had ended.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Trump was the tribune of those who felt betrayed and misled and mistreated.
    Time, 14 Jan. 2023
  • At the competition on Monday, there were twice as many requests for seats in the press tribune as there were seats.
    New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Johnson has become a tribune of the people, without a people.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 6 June 2022
  • The tribune of empire, Rudyard Kipling, composed two poems for the occasion.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2022
  • For months in Petrograd, and all over Russia, every street-corner was a public tribune.
    Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
  • The man who put aside his comfortable life of wealth and private enterprise to become a tribune to the common man has been terribly wronged himself.
    Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
  • And nobody wants to die alone, 7,000 miles from home, in a stadium media tribune surrounded by colleagues.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Wyler's epic drama tells the story of an aristocratic Jew living in Judea who incurs the wrath of a childhood friend who has become a Roman tribune.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In addition, the team found evidence of a wooden post for a seat that a tribune, or Roman official, would have occupied.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Carson, a Dublin lawyer, rapidly became the political tribune of Ulster’s resistance to Home Rule and then its will for self-government.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 8 July 2022
  • Greeley’s Tribune and Greeley the tribune would rise together over the next 30 years, paper and person often indistinguishable.
    James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020

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