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How to use correspondent in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Correspondent means corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous. Example: “My correspondent apologized for not answering my letter.”

Examples of correspondent by meaning

nounSomething which corresponds with something else; counterpart.

  • Both kála and kalánka have widespread correspondents in the western Mediterranean Romance languages.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 442

More sentences with correspondent

  • My correspondent apologized for not answering my letter.From the entry apologize
  • Katherine Viner wants to appoints a "1 per cent correspondent" to hound the filthy rich.2015 February 24, Patrick Kidd, “Guardian Angels Declare”, in The Times, page 11. From the entry Grauniad
  • Weir's quarry, Kevin Trudeau, complained about "ambush journalism" when the correspondent stopped him on a Zurich street.2013 June 10, David Bauder, “ABC's 'The Lookout' a new outlet for 'Nightline'”, in Businessweek, retrieved 20 Apr 2014. From the entry ambush journalism
  • She might speak fluent politicianese, but she never talked down to her correspondents.2013, Jody Lynn Nye, Robert Asprin’s Dragons Run, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN. From the entry politicianese
  • Your correspondent has a handful of superannuated computers lying around the home.2007 June 1, “Sledgehammers and hard drives”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 16 May 2025. From the entry superannuated
  • My Dunfanaghy correspondent has also heard the noun addlings, though not of late.1999, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, The Words We Use: Collection 3, Dublin: Four Courts Press, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry addlings
  • Forums and mailbases lead to instant correspondent broadcasts within specific interest areas.1999, Tim Crook, Radio Drama: Theory and Practice, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry mailbase
  • "The leaks definitely softened the ground for Clinton," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan.1998 August 18, Tony Karon, “Who Knew?”, in Time, retrieved 02 Feb 2016. From the entry soften the ground
  • Our correspondent found that timekeeping had suffered following the substitution of Class 5 4-6-0s on these workings.1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 638. From the entry suffer
  • Are we going to try to win this one on the same faithless vegetable (asks a correspondent)?1940 February 28, “Miscellany”, in “Lucio”, editor, The Manchester Guardian, number 29,152, section “A Bas Les Spuds!”, page 4, column 7. From the entry potatophile
  • To our little correspondent a store called New Williams said "Look ahere."1935 March 8, “Dreams And Dresses-A Tale About A Cold And Black Lass And A Quest”, in The Gold and Black, volume XVII, number 21…. From the entry look ahere
  • Can any of our readers give this correspondent the name applied to a young gander?[1911, The Canadian Teacher, volume XVI, Toronto, Ont.: Educational Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 733, column 2. From the entry ganderling
  • Our London correspondent informs us that the "spirit of rush" possesses London.1907 August 1, “The Sprit of Rush”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023. From the entry step lively
  • “That’s exactly the point,” said Andrea Vreede, Vatican correspondent for NOS, the Dutch public radio and TV network.2025 September 6, Angela Giuffrida, quoting Andrea Vreede, “Pope prepares to canonise London-born teenager nicknamed ‘God’s influencer’”…. From the entry millennial
  • A correspondent has advised me of a new slang word,“husstuss,” which refers to HSTS, the abbreviation for homosexual transsexual.2022 October 6, Ray Blanchard, Twitter. From the entry husstuss
  • Hearing from a correspondent, the editor of the Paris Vindicator wrote that the lad was "Ku-Kluxed" (beaten) to death.2012, Kenneth Wayne Howell, Still the Arena of Civil War, page 229. From the entry Ku-Klux
  • Sunday Times Managing Editor, Ray Hartley – a former political correspondent – is brutal about the state of political journalism.2005, Angela Quintal, “Political Reporting”, in Adrian Hadland, editor, Essays on South African Journalism, Cape Town: HSRC Press…. From the entry imbongi
  • TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon is keeping her ear to the ground as candidates' names start to pop up.2001 May 3, Elaine Shannon, Jessica Reaves, “Who'll Follow Freeh Into the FBI Corner Office?”, in Time. From the entry ear to the ground
  • A bimedia office will be opened in Tokyo, meaning that the correspondent there will work both for radio and television.1990, Roger Wallis, Stanley J. Baran, The Known World of Broadcast News, page 68. From the entry bimedia
  • For some reason I have never heard satisfactorily explained, the most obsessive of these correspondents seem to prefer green.1985 March 8, Ian Aitken, “Tories who are fluoriding high before the fall”, in Peter Preston, editor, The Guardian, number 58719, London…. From the entry green-ink brigade
  • The program for denumbering gives the possibility by the numbers from a given range to receive the correspondent mnemocombinations.1985, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, page 81. From the entry denumber
  • Today’s only guests were the governor’s aide, Lord Lumley, two other government representatives and a sofaful of foreign correspondents.1956 March 26, “Silence Haunts Capital During Cyprus Curfew”, in Corpus Christi Caller, volume 74, number 56, Corpus Christi, Tex., page 10. From the entry sofaful
  • We are indebted to these correspondents for correcting these errors, based on semi-official statements, which have been published many times.1954 March, Editor's comment, “Letters to the Editor”, in Railway Magazine, page 209. From the entry semi-official
  • We congratulate our correspondents on some very cogent reasoning, and shall have to watch our step even more carefully in future!1944 May and June, “In the Critics' Den”, in Railway Magazine, page 132. From the entry cogent
  • Many of our correspondents participated in the discussion, and the upshot was that the alleged record was discredited.1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202. From the entry discredit
  • Our correspondents are urged to cultivate a good medium-brow vocabulary, to conform to the taste of a medium-brow editor.1929, The Phi Gamma Delta - Volume 51, Issue 6, page 556. From the entry medium-brow
  • According to the New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail," professional "floppers" are making good livings out of American insurance companies.1928, The Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor. From the entry flopper
  • "A fuelish way of measuring," comments a correspondent.1921, Ax-I-Dent-Ax - Volumes 6-7, page 15. From the entry fuelish
  • Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are.1909, The Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 29, London: J. Churchill, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 819. From the entry gutbread
  • Kirsten Dunst stars as Lee, a hardbitten photojournalist who leads a group of war correspondents on a road trip towards the conflict’s front line.2024 March 30, Ellen E. Jones, “Civil War film-maker Alex Garland: ‘In the US and UK there’s a lot to be very concerned about’”, in The…. From the entry hard-bitten
  • James Young, the International News Service correspondent in Chungching who had been sending reports attacking the Japanese military since before the war.2008 [1948], Yasutaro (Keiho) Soga, translated by Kihei Hirai, Life behind Barbed Wire: the World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaiʻi…. From the entry Chungching
  • After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice).1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature, page 101. From the entry cadre
  • Minor accidents had convinced the correspondent that the witch's spell was working on her and she demanded a counter-spell from Simpkins against the ill-wisher.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 69. From the entry counterspell
  • Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22. From the entry actuality
  • On the long hard trek from Taoyuan our party of military attaches and correspondents met them on hard lumpy paths, crossing winter paddy fields.1944 January 3 [1943 December 29], Brooks Atkinson, “MANY ATROCITIES LISTED BY CHINESE; Barbarity of Japanese Held to Be Psychopathic…. From the entry Yuan River
  • Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws.1935 July 15, “Zags Jammed”, in TIME, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2011. From the entry under the wire
  • Our correspondent seems to hope that the unclean, playing Ping-Pong with the clean, will become unpleasantly conscious of his uncleanness and reform.1900, Daily Chronicle, published 1905, May 8, page 6/6. From the entry ping pong
  • No mic drop in history will ever be as thoroughly scrutinised as the one performed by Barack Obama during his final White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening.2016 May 2, Stuart Heritage, “‘Obama out’: a brief history of mic drops”, in The Guardian. From the entry mic drop
  • One of the more regular correspondents to the club was an Everton fan, who'd send in an abusive screed each time Albion were due to play on Merseyside.2014 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The…. From the entry screed

Meaning of correspondent

  1. adjective Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
  2. adjective Conforming; obedient.
  3. noun Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.

Full definition of correspondent

Questions about correspondent in a sentence

How do you use correspondent in a sentence?
Correspondent is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “My correspondent apologized for not answering my letter.”
What is a short sentence with correspondent?
“Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.”
What does correspondent mean?
Correspondent means corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.

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