How to Use statesman in a Sentence

statesman

noun
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  • He was a soldier and statesman.
  • Would the famed writer and statesman send the new town of Franklin a bell for its church?
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Medaris and Thomas Geddis are the elder statesmen in the room.
    — Fletcher Page, Cincinnati.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Trump might not be the Davos crowd’s favorite statesman.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Mario hung a big portrait of Thomas More, the Catholic saint and statesman, in his office.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Mr Kim has gone from pariah to statesman in six months.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • And his role was not only that of a statesman or diplomat.
    — Allan Massie, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Too many of them want him back in the game, and not just from an elder-statesman-like distance.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The elder statesmen would be too much down low to handle.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2018
  • On the other hand, there is Hamilton the lawyer, banker, statesman and treaty-maker.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Even the party’s voters know that these men aren’t great statesmen.
    — Josephine Huetlin, The New Republic, 25 June 2018
  • Kyle Gibson is the elder statesman in the Twins’ clubhouse.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Nixon was known to be more hawkish on the Russians and a more seasoned statesman than John F. Kennedy.
    — WSJ, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Powell, a soldier turned statesman, was born the child of immigrants in the Bronx.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The Spurs’ eldest statesman believes the team’s youth can be an asset.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2021
  • For Aleksander Barkov and Aaron Ekblad, the elder statesmen of the franchise?
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
  • As both a scientist and a statesman, Franklin was a game changer.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Many of her clients were wealthy noblemen and statesmen who had promised to support her in her old age.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Yoon looked the part of jovial statesman and ultimate U.S. ally.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • At the age of 34, some people thought elder NBA statesman James might be slowing down.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 7 Nov. 2019
  • But the 76-year-old statesman didn’t assuage the concerns of his competitors.
    — Tara Golshan, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
  • But when the younger filmmaker met him, the elder statesman had more or less given up.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2024
  • And the Big Ten’s new commissioner came off like a politician rather than a statesman.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • For statesmen reeling from the carnage of the battlefields, this was a hopeful prospect.
    — Phillip Dehne, Twin Cities, 2 July 2019
  • Above all, he is regarded as one of Africa’s ablest statesmen of the 20th century.
    — Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah, Quartz Africa, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Churchill was quite the greatest statesman that Britain had ever produced.
    — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Mikhail Gorbachev was a politician and statesman who had a huge impact on the course of world history.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Even in an era of sixth-year super seniors, George Moore is the eldest statesman at Oregon.
    — oregonlive, 17 May 2021
  • McCoury, the elder statesman of bluegrass music, now 85, represents the gold standard of the genre.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
  • McCain-Palin was a tragedy: A great statesman, desperate for the win, succumbed to vanity and made a pact with darkness.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024

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