How to Use newspaperman in a Sentence

newspaperman

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  • And this from the son of legendary newspaperman Arthur Gelb.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • This nobody was not a newspaperman in any real sense of the word.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
  • The origin of that name dates back to 1875, and a newspaperman who had a grudge against the city, the Minor Baseball League reports.
    — Grace Noble, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • One of Barrett's last requests was that newspapermen be called to his cell.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2014
  • The meeting was held in the office of the irreverent ex-newspaperman and Nixon aide Lyn Nofziger.
    — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 20 June 2018
  • Still, when a newspaperman gets the chance to accept the credit the winning coach awarded him with a sarcastic smirk, take it, take it, take it.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • And, after this, Jerry terHorst went back to being a newspaperman, and a damn good one.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 Jan. 2017
  • That alone is one of the reasons Guinn, a former newspaperman, revels in the work of a nonfiction author.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Donald Trump falls off the list for the first time, as does newspaperman Ralph M. Ingersoll—both saddled with huge debt from junk bond binges.
    — Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The Rothschild house and grounds were under siege from a small army of newspapermen, mainly from America.
    — Andrew Morton, Town & Country, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Using the just-the-facts voice of an ace newspaperman, Machen proceeds to report on a series of uncanny events around a small Welsh village.
    — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020
  • Words to live by, especially coming from a great newspaperman with ink in his veins.
    — Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The newspaperman and author specialized in streetwise tales of New York City.
    — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Born the son of a Montana newspaperman, Scanlan started in the carnival business while in high school in Arizona.
    — Bradley Zint, Daily Pilot, 13 July 2017
  • But a newspaperman has habits and instincts that can bring clarity.
    — Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Aug. 2017
  • More than just a newspaperman, Lee was also an attorney, having read for the bar without going to law school.
    — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • At the heart of the property is the Rhoads house, named for a newspaperman instrumental in the development of the community.
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • This was in 1971 and my father, Herman, was nearby, sitting with his friend, fellow newspaperman Robert Cromie.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • One winter day, a newspaperman saw her shooting ... alone.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Payne graduated from UConn in 1964 with dreams of working as a newspaperman.
    — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • His newspaperman father had decided to switch careers and bought an AM radio station in the small city of Kinston, about four hours east of Charlotte.
    — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The former newspaperman said Danny’s body had been laying in view at Jack Lee’s funeral home for two weeks in case somebody could recognize the boy.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Later a newspaperman spent time at the Volker Park fountain, a budding hangout for guitar strummers and free spirits.
    — Rick Montgomery, kansascity.com, 2 June 2017
  • And right here credit should go to the dialog writers who gave her and the other characters lines that really sounded as if newspapermen were talking.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Mr Nolan, a third-generation newspaperman, took over the business in March, when his father retired to Florida.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • But following the death of legendary newspaperman Mike Royko in 1997, it was determined that Kass would be more of an asset to the Republican-leaning daily as a columnist.
    — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
  • But most of them were little kids playing, rock musicians, a few hippies and radio, television and newspapermen.
    — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Newspapermen, academics, left-leaning media critics, and right-leaning digital news sites argued that the stories were a bridge too far.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Now in his late 80s, Evans emerged from a working-class Welsh family in the provincial north of England to make his reputation as an ambitious young newspaperman.
    — Jim Holt, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • Mormonism had to come of age amid the trappings of modernity—nosy newspapermen, tell-all memoirs, civil-rights movements—and its schisms have brought a certain glee to mainstream Christians, who often seem to resent it for being young and homegrown.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023

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