How to Use Pulitzer Prize in a Sentence

Pulitzer Prize

noun
  • He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Three of those are Pulitzer Prize winners.
    — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The project was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
    — Tony Cook, IndyStar, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The play won the Pulitzer Prize on the same day as the Met Gala.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 May 2025
  • The photographs won the Pulitzer Prize, with both men’s names on them.
    — Gary Knight, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Which of Louise Erdrich’s books won the Pulitzer Prize?
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This is the guy who didn’t go pick up his Pulitzer Prize, didn’t go to the Oscars.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Read on to find out what the gang has been up to since Sheldon won his Pulitzer Prize.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
  • And then Friday night, the feds lugged one of their Pulitzer Prize winners.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
  • If the latest Pulitzer Prize winner feels like a bore, that’s OK!
    — Julia Ries Wexler, Health, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The series won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize winner as well as an Oscar nominee.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Even though it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the show baffled some critics.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Their work earned the paper its first Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
    — Erik Lie, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Those articles helped spur the court to adopt its first-ever code of conduct and received a Pulitzer Prize.
    — ProPublica, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Brooks has been paired with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts.
    — Carolina Del Busto, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The other was Pulitzer Prize winner Nat Caldwell.
    — Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Adams won a Pulitzer Prize, basically because his timing was right.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Her novel The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Her novel The Quick and the Dead was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
    — Joy Williams, The Dial, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Kendrick Lamar is one of the most arguably talented rappers in the game and has a Pulitzer Prize award to show for it.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 6 May 2024
  • Phylicia is directing Pulitzer Prize winning plays on Broadway in her off time.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The Star wins the Pulitzer Prize for a series on medical malpractice.
    — Kurtcia Collazo, IndyStar, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The Union-Tribune would later win a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The Union-Tribune would later win a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting.
    — Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture said it all – his family seeing his face for the first time in almost six years.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The play was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 June 2026
  • Certainly a far cry from when the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner was just happy to snag a job in a mailroom for the free supplies.
    — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize in commentary in 2020 for her work.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Jo Becker is a reporter in the investigative unit and a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
    — Adam Sella, New York Times, 26 May 2024

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