How to Use advice column in a Sentence

advice column

noun
  • Think of it like an advice column for your wallet.
    — Personal Finance Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Not for nothing, but that’s kind of the bread and butter of an advice column.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But the thing about launching an advice column on a dating app is that there's a lot of lonely people on dating apps.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
  • That’s right, the world’s drunkest advice column that also would like to give you a book recommendation.
    — Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
  • In this advice column, Goth Shakira holds court in a starry place to answer your heart’s questions about love.
    — Goth Shakira, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Tell me everything Merve Emre on the history of the advice column.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 2 June 2025
  • The trailer includes Clare initially resisting the idea of writing an advice column, and then looking back at her youth.
    — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2023
  • There was this advice column, aimed at thirtysomethings with biological clock agita.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Welcome back to everyone’s favorite drunken advice column.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Writing in about a breakup is an advice column classic, and Carolyn Hax has read and answered a version of this letter hundreds of times over.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Meredith Goldstein also writes the Love Letters advice column.
    — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Welcome back to the most scintillating, compelling, thrilling, and hands-down drunkest literary advice column this side of the lord’s internet.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And yet there is something unique about an outdoors advice column, less in the specifics of individual problems than in the way those problems reveal the contours of bigger, communal ones.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Carolyn Hax has written an advice column for The Washington Post since 1997.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Our monthly advice column tackles all your destination wedding quandaries (and confusions) with intel straight from industry experts.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2023
  • Our monthly advice column tackles all your destination wedding quandaries (and confusions) with intel straight from industry experts.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In this installment of Cheryl Strayed’s beloved advice column, the Wild author responds to a letter writer who is struggling to feel okay after a miscarriage.
    — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a new framework for thinking through your ethical dilemmas and philosophical questions.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The internet platform also gave Guy access to a mainstream audience off of X, including an advice column for politicians at Politico.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Carolyn Hax started her Washington Post advice column in 1997, after five years on the Style desk and none as a therapist.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 May 2026
  • Carolyn Hax started her Washington Post advice column in 1997, after five years on the Style desk and none as a therapist.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Carolyn Hax started her Washington Post advice column in 1997, after five years on the Style desk and none as a therapist.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Getty Our monthly advice column tackles all your destination wedding quandaries (and confusions) with intel straight from industry experts.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The collection of essays comes from a time when Strayed wrote an advice column for online literary magazine The Rumpus, each essay a response to a reader's question.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Check out Carroll explaining how her Elle advice column was the stuff of lifelong dreams, then enjoy a segment about her childhood fascination with Dear Abby and the like.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Raise the Bar is Fortune’s advice column written by business strategist and resilience educator Komal Minhas.
    — Bykomal Minhas, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The case's final witness was expected to be Roberta Myers, former editor of Elle magazine, where Carroll used to write her advice column.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 4 May 2023
  • Dear Life Kit is NPR's advice column, where experts answer tricky questions about relationships, social etiquette, work culture and more.
    — Beck Harlan, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025
  • This can be an effective approach in professional settings, says Alison Green, creator of the work advice column Ask a Manager.
    — Allie Volpe, Vox, 12 May 2024

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