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How to use commentator in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Commentator means synonym of historian or chronicler, a person who compiles an annotated history. Example: “He was a commentator for football two years before retiring.”

Examples of commentator by meaning

nounA person who compiles explanations of the law, particularly (historical) comparatively innovative European jurists in...

  • It would be well into the fourteenth century before the commentators came into their own.2009, Randall Lesaffer, European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective, →ISBN, page 257

nounA person who provides an instantaneous description of a public event, particularly a sporting event, for a mass media...

  • He was a commentator for football two years before retiring.

nounA person who provides analysis or opinion on current events, especially for a mass media audience.

  • Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators.2025 February 19, Christian Wolmar, “Reeves talks of 'growth' but pays lip service to the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 35

More sentences with commentator

  • Watching the political commentators on cable news channels always gets him fired up.From the entry fired up
  • Let's go over to Peter Smith, our commentator at the match.From the entry over to
  • Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.From the entry interpretation
  • Following this retweet, several internet commentators responded to the title of the conference paper.2025 September, Casey Burkholder, Pam Whitty, Pam Malins, Melissa Keehn, “On summoning queer joy in early childhood education: Some…. From the entry queerphobe
  • Many commentators have argued that training AI with copyrighted material constitutes “fair use”2023 August 19, Alex Reisner, “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI”, in The Atlantic. From the entry fair use
  • Most players, fans, coaches, commentators believe the hot hand is widespread in game situations.2023 November 6, Kim McGrath, quoting Erik Nesson, “Q&A: 'Hot hand' in sports is real, but there's a catch”, in Phys.org, archived from…. From the entry hot streak
  • Literally the only source for non-pozzed news from Canada,” wrote one Daily Stormer commentator.2018 May 16, Martin Patriquin and others, “Canadian Far Right Extremism: The Racist Podcaster Who Started a Neo-Nazi Coffee Company to…. From the entry unironically
  • Even when you couldn't follow the American commentators you could tell they were talking sense.2017, Clive James, Clive James On Television. From the entry unfathom
  • While commentators deplored the thuggery of some cabdrivers, they deplored “L’uberisation” even more.2015 July 4, Maureen Dowd, “Paris When It Sizzles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry uberisation
  • Too many commentators are quick to accuse their enemies of being evil.2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press, published 2012, page 13. From the entry div
  • Every crime commentator on cable news will have him on toast.2011, Michael Bowen, Service Dress Blues: A Rep & Melissa Pennyworth Mystery, page 102. From the entry have someone on toast
  • This unfortunately hasn't prevented many commentators from continuing to miscredit Flaherty as a codirector.2008, Steven Jay Schneider, One Thousand One Movies You Must See Before You Die. From the entry miscredit
  • For the most part these commentators and critics were Russophobes of strongly hawkish views.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 7. From the entry Russophobe
  • Most commentators have been taken aback (but reassured) at how opposition has, if anything, grown rather than faded over time.2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3. From the entry take aback
  • Indeed, many commentators still blame Russia for Brexit.2022 January 24, Tim Black, “The UK Must Stop Meddling in Ukraine: Boris Johnson’s Sabre-rattling is Both Desperate and Dangerous”, in Tom…. From the entry bête noire
  • Labelled 'the most famous and wisest of all the centaurs' by one commentator, Chiron represented the acceptable face of centaurdom.2020, Sean Magee, In Praise of Famous Horses. From the entry centaurdom
  • Commentators have described the phenomenon as symbolic of the growing political debate about use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian. From the entry mufti
  • Sober-eyed commentators safe in their television studios interviewed engineers about the chances that the rest of the dam could go.2011, Shaunti Feldhahn, The Lights of Tenth Street, →ISBN. From the entry go
  • This suggests that commentators such as Mahmood would do well to understand that quasiracism does not underlie all attacks on Islam.2011, Russell Blackford, Freedom of Religion and the Secular State, →ISBN. From the entry quasiracism
  • The Christmas Eve announcement of these bonuses was greeted by one commentator by saying the taxpayers got scrooged.2010 January 22, Committee on Financial Services, COMPENSATION IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY. From the entry scrooge
  • The text and the method of the papyric commentator do not allow us to elicit the authentic Simonidean version.2009, Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, “Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra ἄλοχος μνηστὴ έμήσατο”…. From the entry papyric
  • Most commentators recognize that the two waw consecutives in Genesis 2:15 resume the narrative thread of verse 8.2008, Terry Mortenson, Thane Ury, Coming to Grips With Genesis, →ISBN. From the entry consecutive
  • If commentators have concurred on the characterization of Reagan as a synecdoche, they have also noted his status as a signifier.2008, Diane Rubenstein, This is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary. From the entry signifier
  • It is footballers though, rather than commentators, presenters or pundits, who when interviewed have provided some of the best Colemanballs.2004, George Best, Scoring At Half-Time: Adventures On and Off the Pitch, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry footballer
  • Nor does it behove western commentators whose countries are occupying Iraq to lay down conditions for those opposing it.2003 November 3, Tariq Ali, “Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original…. From the entry behove
  • According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 137. From the entry millennium
  • Yet I have noticed a disposition on the part of quite a diversity of present-day commentators to denigrate those engines.1960 May, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 343. From the entry denigrate
  • The past few days have been an "unimaginable nightmare" for Mustapha Kharbouch, the Palestinian Brown University student who online commentators falsely blamed for the shooting.2025 December 19, Antonia Noori Farzan, “'Unimaginable nightmare': Brown student responds to doxxing attacks”, in Providence Journal. From the entry Mustapha
  • Commentators saw the strike as likely to alienate the public and unlikely to win significant changes in terms of closures and job losses.2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 39. From the entry alienate
  • Before moving onto the content of Hobson-Jobson, an explication of the publication history is necessary since this has clearly challenged many commentators.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography…. From the entry challenge
  • Henry Alford, a commentator for The New York Times, has observed that “social media status updates are basically selfies, humblebrags, and rants.”2018, James D. Wright, Lost Souls: Manners and Morals in Contemporary American Society, Taylor & Francis, page 230. From the entry humblebrag
  • Jeffrey Toobin, a lawyer and legal commentator, called the move “a grotesque abuse of power by the president of the United States”.2017 May 10, Julian Borger, The Guardian. From the entry nondemocracy
  • Because of this, some commentators are suspicious that the appetite for a Scorbus romance was not unknown to those catering to it.2016 August 16, Ilana Masad, “Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance”, in The Guardian. From the entry Scorbus
  • The commentator concluded that the early Jews therefore were not mono-theistic (believing in One God) but were poly-theistic (believing in many gods).2013, Kim Laliberte, The Call to Follow Jesus: Studies in the Gospel of Mark, →ISBN. From the entry poly-theistic
  • Indeed, the appeal of the psychograph for early commentators rested partly on the assumption that anyone could tap into their "genius" to some extent.2013, David Trippett, Wagner's Melodies: Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry psychograph
  • Some commentators wondered if Dati was being used as part of an internal battle between Fillon and the head of Sarkozy's UMP party.2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian. From the entry ump
  • The chantwell, or lead singers, of the stick-fighting groups functioned as social commentator and haranguer and so may be considered very early calypsonians.2008, “Calypso”, in Richard M. Juang, Noelle Morrissette, Melissa Fullmer, editors, Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and…. From the entry chantwell

Meaning of commentator

  1. noun Synonym of historian or chronicler, a person who compiles an annotated history.
  2. noun A person who compiles explanations and critical notes on a text.
  3. noun A person who compiles explanations of the law, particularly (historical) comparatively innovative European jurists in the 14th century, as opposed to earlier glossators.

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Questions about commentator in a sentence

How do you use commentator in a sentence?
Commentator is used as a noun. For example: “He was a commentator for football two years before retiring.”
What is a short sentence with commentator?
“Indeed, many commentators still blame Russia for Brexit.”
What does commentator mean?
Commentator means synonym of historian or chronicler, a person who compiles an annotated history.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commentator (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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