How to Use usher in a Sentence

usher

1 of 2 noun
Definition of ushernext
Synonyms for ushernext
  • 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 | [email protected], 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

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