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How to use reviewer in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Reviewer means a person who writes reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic. Example: “My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.”

Examples of reviewer by meaning

nounAn inspector.

  • The cost of initial site evaluation visits will vary with the cost of travel from the USDA reviewer's duty station to the applicant's place of business.2007, Mary Choate, Organic Lies

More sentences with reviewer

  • My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.From the entry exposition
  • His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.From the entry savage
  • The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly.From the entry cut up
  • “My reviewer made the point that everybody seems to be on sticks and Zimmers.”2025 October 20, Michael Hann, “‘Everyone seems to be on Zimmers’: after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?”, in The…. From the entry zimmer
  • "No more curtain sticking to your heiny!" says one reviewer about the Moen curved shower rod.2017 June 22, Maria Cassano, “21 Genius Inventions That Make Your Bathroom Cleaner & More Hygienic”, in Bustle. From the entry heiny
  • While reviewers were lukecool (38% on Rotten Tomatoes), Cirque du Freak did make money for Universal Pictures.2015 October 1, Michael Murphy, Fear Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Voodoo, Vampires, Graveyards & Ghosts of the Crescent City, The…. From the entry lukecool
  • Five times, reviewers ensured the author this was the best Zutara story they had read.2014, Rincke de Bont, "The Appreciation of Storybending: An Exploration of Reviewing Practices in Online Avatar Fan Fiction", thesis…. From the entry Zutara
  • The Sounds reviewer pointed out that Joe’s Daddy was not a bankrobber but a Foreign Office diplomat.2009, Marcus Gray, “… To the World’s End: Returns”, in Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling, London: Vintage Books, published…. From the entry bankrobber
  • Reviewers in the heavies aim to impress with the depth of their knowledge and appreciation.2006, Richard Keeble, The Newspapers Handbook. From the entry heavy
  • It is unclear if the first reviewers were testers, though that is likely the case.2005 June 1, Kim Rosas, “BumGenius”, in Dirty Diaper Laundry (Review), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2024. From the entry birth-to-potty diaper
  • Contemporary reviewers offered different labels in attempts to describe the genre of Schindler's List.2000, Sue Vice, Holocaust Fiction, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry faction
  • Reviewers esteemed the book highly and pronounced the youthful urinater an authentic Voice of Protest.1996, R[obert] Emmett Tyrell, Jr., “The Making of the Clinton Cabal”, in Boy Clinton: The Political Biography, Washington, D.C.: Regnery…. From the entry urinator
  • This reviewer too is on the quibbly side, with four quibbles.1992: Martin Bronfenbrenner, review of The Japanese Economy by Takatoshi Ito, in the Southern Economic Journal, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 324. From the entry quibbly
  • The terrific seven-grain bread here is the kryptonite of restaurant reviewers: two mini-loaves and you are incapacitated.1991 October 25, Bryan Miller, “Restaurants: John Clancy's”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2021. From the entry kryptonite
  • Bernstein's original gifts that this reviewer entertains towards his genius as an executant and an interpreter.1944 February 19, Virgil Thomson, edited by Tim Page, Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940–1954, published 2014, →ISBN. From the entry sure-handed
  • Lecky's “Map of Life." The reviewers did not welcome it either eagerly or seriously.1900, The Book Lover, numbers 5-10, page 234. From the entry ewe lamb
  • We recommend that authors and reviewers carefully consider whether manuscript quality is enhanced by the use of therapy-speak.2022 January 15, Amy M Franks, David Caldwell, “Unpacking the Use of Therapy-Speak in Scholarly Writing”, in American Journal of…. From the entry therapy-speak
  • A remarkable performance, both piece by piece and all in all, but with items for quibbly reviewers to quibble about.1992: Martin Bronfenbrenner, review of The Japanese Economy by Takatoshi Ito, in the Southern Economic Journal, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 324. From the entry quibbly
  • Your reviewer, being more particularly a Scandinavist, would like to add a few details from his own field.1947, L. M. Hollander, “Huskult og Hinsidighetstro. Nye Studier over Fedrekult i Norge, by E. Birkeli [Book Review]”, in The Journal of…. From the entry Scandinavist
  • After they have registered on JMB’s homepage, reviewers, or “Volunpeers” are alerted to new manuscripts matching their expertise (and only when this is the case).2018 January 9, Christopher Tancock, “Innovation in peer review: introducing “volunpeers””, in Elsevier Connect. From the entry volunpeer
  • Includes a selling knickers to a burusera shop scene, a hilariously cheap “disco” set, but not enough cumsoaked schoolgirls for this reviewer.2015, Clive Davies, Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write about, SCB Distributors, →ISBN. From the entry burusera
  • This is a book about war at the grunt level, and another reviewer was good enough to remark that the story is “told straight.”2011, Keith Nolan, Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969. From the entry grunt level
  • The book is “a landmark in what’s possible for the novel” in “our increasingly, and terrifyingly, postnational world,” our reviewer, Jonathan Lethem, said.2009 September 20, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times. From the entry postnational
  • Some of them are polemical, our reviewer, Joel Brouwer, said, but “Reed’s best poems conjure up a vertiginous, multiplicious, irresolvable and thrilling world.”2007 October 21, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times. From the entry multiplicious
  • He's been harsh, too, reacting with the swift kick of a poison-pen reviewer when he doesn't like what he sees on his stage.2004 August 24, Anthony McCarron, “Baseball in the Bronx playing like New York's greatest theater”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 27…. From the entry poison pen
  • Nonaccreditable programs undergo an extensive academic program review every 5 years by a committee consisting of two external reviewers in every case.2000, T. Dary Erwin, The NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment, page 13. From the entry nonaccreditable
  • He made most other book reviewers, to borrow Dorothy Parker’s words about the drama critic George Jean Nathan, “look as if they spelled out their reviews with alphabet blocks.”2024 January 1, Dwight Garner, “Want to Feel, Intellectually, Like Someone Is Rotating Your Tires?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry sui generis
  • I recently had a peer reviewer demand that I refer to the so-called “Fortnite to alt-right pipeline” as though games automatically turn players into right-wing extremists.2021, Marc A. Ouellette, Playing with the Gays: Masculinity and Relations in Video Games, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry pipeline
  • Yet apparently millions of us just love being nudged or browbeaten into particular chowlines by someone else with an air of authority, from weight-loss guru to restaurant reviewer.2007 January 10, Anne Mendelson, “At the Temples of Food, an Outsider’s Look at the Sacred Texts”, in New York Times. From the entry chowline
  • Novelist Chuck Palahniuk's fans have crowned him a prince of edge for a style that is, according to one reviewer, “equal parts potent imagery, nihilistic coolspeak, and doped-out craziness.”2007, Arthur Plotnik, Sound & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry coolspeak
  • Tirelessly swimming through de Quincy’s ‘department of impassioned prose,’ either in splendiloquent support of some new work or in dismissal of its shortcomings, is vouchsafed to few reviewers.2006, Nigel J. Jamieson, “The Ubiquitous Book Review”, in Law & Critique, volume 17, number 2, page 218. From the entry splendiloquent
  • And then one reviewer said that it was your average boy-girl song and the writer didn't understand why people were making such a big deal out of it.2006, American Songwriter Magazine: Song: The World's Best Songwriters on Creating the Music That Moves Us. From the entry boy-girl
  • Tangentially, speaking of HoYay! movies, the local movie reviewer here said about "The Count of Monte Cristo" that he's seen less homoerotic subtext in a Village People video.2002 January 26, Shadowy Moon [username], “Re: Religious groups praise "Lord Of The Rings"”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet). From the entry hoyay
  • To call a motion picture reviewer a critic, in the strict sense of the word, is as misnomial as calling a Chicago hog butcher a surgeon.1975, Pare Lorentz, Lorentz on film: movies 1927 to 1941. From the entry misnomial
  • There is scarce a reviewer, scarce a clubmember, never a Tory in these United States who cannot (if he would) improve upon the work of Mr.1924, Charles C[rittenton] Baldwin, “Upton Sinclair”, in The Men Who Make Our Novels (Essay Index Reprint Series), revised edition…. From the entry clubmember
  • His official biographer, Edmund Morris, was so confounded by the assignment that he resorted to fiction, producing a muddled portrait of “Dutch” (Reagan’s longtime nickname) that was blasted by reviewers.2024 September 9, Jennifer Burns, “Book Review: 'Reagan' by Max Boot”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2024. From the entry confounded
  • Reviewers often mention that Hunters, specifically the tall boots, don’t fit their calves—and that’s why we’d choose the shorty version, which is short enough that this problem doesn’t crop up.2019 October 10, Eve O'Neill, “The Best Rain Boots for Men and Women”, in Wirecutter, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry shorty
  • This explains why Yule kept the title secret until the eleventh hour, why some contemporary reviewers took exception to the title, and why Yule highlighted Burnell’s approval of the title.2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27…. From the entry eleventh hour
  • On the other hand the production of concordances in itself is scarcely less "dangerous" than the undue enthusiasm for on line retrieval systems rightly characterised as "infoholics" by some reviewers.1982, Manfred Thaller, “Historical Software Section”, in Historical Social Research, volume 7, number 3, page 78. From the entry infoholic

Meaning of reviewer

  1. noun A person who writes reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic.
  2. noun A person who reviews songs, movies, games, or other forms of artistic works.
  3. noun An inspector.

Full definition of reviewer

Questions about reviewer in a sentence

How do you use reviewer in a sentence?
Reviewer is used as a noun. For example: “My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.”
What is a short sentence with reviewer?
“The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly.”
What does reviewer mean?
Reviewer means a person who writes reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reviewer (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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