How to Use usher in a Sentence

usher

1 of 2 noun

• Gone are the actors and the stagehands and the ushers and the fans.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• The man who had led us in told the usher not to bother us.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
• But after just a few seconds, the usher waved Veal to move on.
  — NBC News, 8 June 2020
• When the guy who cut our hair was an usher at our wedding.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• As a teenage usher, Jim Paschke fell in love with the spectacle of sports.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2021
• This solved the problem of finding a seat to watch the game and risking getting kicked out by an usher.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2020
• Tom was an usher at the stadium, and Donna was a die-hard fan.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
• An usher asked him to move, but CC, a Navy veteran, wouldn’t budge.
  — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• If a woman is talking in a movie theater and the usher asks her to leave, that’s not sexist.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• At one point, an usher instructed me to stop spilling into the aisle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• But as the clock neared 7:15 p.m. (the main show began at 8 p.m.) ushers began to plead with people to return to their seats.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 12 June 2023
• An usher led Green and Mirer to aisle seats in Row F of the orchestra section.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The chief usher of the White House manages the residence and works closely with the first lady and her office.
  — Kate Andersen Brower, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
• Maybe even get a side gig as an usher at the intimate music hall.
  — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022
• That’s a lot of time for not a single usher to confront the smugness of a guy who assumed that the rules don’t apply to him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Alfaro first worked as an usher at CTG, then as a performer.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• An open gate with two Klan gnomes on top ushers visitors into the next gallery.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• Dear Amy: My fiancé and I are planning our wedding and have chosen two of my cousins (ages 8 and 14) to be ushers.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Mike remembers skipping class in high school to go to games, and Kristen used to work as an usher.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2022
• An usher led them to their seats, which came in pods and were spread out under a maze of fluorescent tubes.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2021
• In Section 16, the usher is Jackie Robinson’s great-niece.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• The 21-year-old, who works as a tour guide around the ballpark and as an usher during some games, attended Game 1 as a fan, but will be on the clock for Game 2.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 16 Oct. 2021
• Many of the mourners at the 90-minute service had waited in a long line outside the Ryman since 8 a.m., according to an usher at the event.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 13 Jan. 2023
• Staffers also scurried to locate a Bible, finally finding a Gideon in the desk of the White House chief usher.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2020
• Unfortunately for Clark, an usher at the arena caught him in the act.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2022
• At a preview screening in Dallas, women ran to the bathroom to vomit, and an usher fainted in the aisle.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Petro said he could be assigned as a greeter, usher or ticket taker.
  — Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
• Father Richard trained horses and doubled as an usher at the racetrack.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
• One of the ushers had to threaten to call city police before the pair agreed to leave, according to the venue’s incident report.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
• Having closed up shop 40 years ago, the gallery may be staging a return to Manhattan, and Hayden-Guest and a group of other artist friends came to Miami to help usher it back into the world.
  — Ian Volner, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2023

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usher

2 of 2 verb

• He ushered them to their seats.
• A nurse ushered us into the hospital room.
• The driver put their hands up, and the press was ushered away.
  — Samuel Schaffer, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2023
• The guards touch Anderson’s arm to usher her out of the club.
  — Dallas News, 27 June 2022
• This was the team meant to usher the program into the Big 12.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
• The front desk calls for her, and she is ushered into a room with her mom.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
• The things that this [show] ushered into my life, not to mention the hope, the love and the passion for this project.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
• The wolves let go of the calf and then retreat, while the two adult bison flank the calf and usher it off to safety.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
• At the time, many fans weren’t too pleased with how the show ushered its lead character out.
  — Leah Marilla Thomas, Glamour, 30 Dec. 2023
• Students and players were ushered out of the gym to return home.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• The same holds true for cold fronts that can push resident birds out and usher new ones in.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2022
• The men would usher the women and children to the Ukrainian border.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
• The invaders were willing to kill those who were trying to usher new life into the world.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2022
• While in the line, small groups of guests are ushered into a room with what appears to be a wall-spanning video screen.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023
• Journalists in vests and press badges are ushered to the front of the line at bakeries and at times given free bread.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
• He was soon ushered into a bathroom, where someone had laid out a change of clothes for him.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The jet stream is the fast-moving river of air high in the atmosphere that ushers weather systems across the globe.
  — Angela Fritz, CNN, 11 July 2023
• When your time finally came, you were ushered forward by the deputy head boy.
  — Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
• Streett ushered them to an out-of-the-way location, next to a trash bin, so the two rockers could have their cigarettes.
  — Tony Holt, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
• The tunnels will usher drivers along Memorial Drive through the park while adding 25 acres of park space on a land bridge top.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 25 Jan. 2022
• As the city council moved on to other matters, Dickson ushered the angry crowd out to the porch.
  — Caroline Kitchener, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Writing about Lonnie is a part of that crucial need, an aspect of keeping touch with what ushered me to the page in the first place.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• As the City Council moved on to other matters, Dickson ushered the angry crowd out to the porch.
  — Caroline Kitchener The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2023
• So would most people who have ushered a child through age 17, plus or minus.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• In the meantime, donkeys were ushering down the injured and shuttling up aid.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Three federal marshals rushed over to grab Williams and usher him out the courtroom.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• For Tracee’s mom to usher her down the runway for her solo walk was beautiful.
  — Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2022
• Meanwhile, host Rutledge Wood is back to usher a whole new group of players through the hot lava.
  — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 9 May 2022
• Photos from the scene captured one of the protesters being ushered out of the rotunda by a USCP officer.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024
• People were given just a few minutes to pay their respects before being ushered along.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024