How to Use advice columnist in a Sentence

advice columnist

noun
  • Don’t worry, the decades-long advice columnist brings the color with her.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 30 Aug. 2025
  • There are several letters in this book from me to my inner advice columnist.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Even advice columnist Ann Landers got into the fray.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Carroll, a journalist, author and advice columnist, is a native Hoosier.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • In reply to the bride-to-be's letter, the advice columnist noted that traditions surrounding who pays for a wedding have changed over the years.
    — Erin Clack, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Carroll is a journalist and a onetime advice columnist for Elle magazine.
    — Ben Protess, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Real lives over three decades obviously can’t fit into a 100-word question to an advice columnist.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Debbie is the cool housewife slash advice columnist who has reached the end of her rope and finally starts taking back everything that was stolen from her – piece by piece, name by name.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 July 2025
  • This list includes transcripts from live chats advice columnist Carolyn Hax held in 2023.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The idea of making David Crosby our new advice columnist started as a joke around the Rolling Stone office.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The pseudonymous title character, a depressed, drunken, belligerent twenty-six-year-old advice columnist, has no real hardships of his own and is cursed by doubt.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • Kathryn Hahn plays present-day Clare, hesitant to take on the role of advice columnist, who's at odds with her teenage daughter (Tanzyn Crawford).
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The series will follow the titular brilliant wife, mother, and advice columnist who takes matters into her own hands when a series of injustices forces her down the path of revenge.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
  • What happens when America's most fabulous advice columnist fires up her polka-dot car and hits the road to ask total strangers about love and cleaving in a bunch of tiny towns called Eden?
    — E. Jean Carroll, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Saturday, love advice columnist Goth Shakira will be holding free astrology readings.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The content creator and advice columnist founded the community Brides with Boundaries to help engaged women stand up for themselves when planning their wedding.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Clare’s past shares a lot in common with Strayed’s, including losing her mother at an early age, becoming a young parent herself and finding her life changed by becoming an anonymous advice columnist.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The two weren’t friends but ran in the same New York media circles, Trump as a real estate magnate and tabloid fixture and Carroll as an advice columnist who had her own cable show.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Carroll, a writer and former advice columnist, said Trump raped her during a chance encounter at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.
    — Shayna Jacobs, Kim Bellware and Mark Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Based on the stories by Cheryl Strayed, this limited series — eight 30-minute episodes — will give us the always compelling Kathryn Hahn as an advice columnist whose life is falling apart.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Last year, the Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax addressed a grandma who was hurt when her 7-year-old granddaughter began rebuffing her hugs.
    — Rheana Murray, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The advice columnist—or the content creator—knows this, works within that realm to continue producing material, and must try to ignore whether his or her perspective significantly influences the actions of readers.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Longtime syndicated Tribune advice columnist Amy Dickinson is not retiring.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2024
  • Miss Lonelyhearts—who is actually a man—is an advice columnist receiving letters from people who are impoverished, in despair, and surrounded by an atmosphere of moral depravity and incipient fascism.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
  • Jen Murphy, a regular Outside contributor and its online travel-advice columnist, splits her time between Maui, Hawaii, and Boulder, Colorado.
    — Jen Murphy, Outside, 8 Oct. 2025
  • An advice columnist for the National Education Association takes it one step further and recommends limiting a child’s nightly homework to 10 minutes per grade level.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Debbie is a brilliant wife, mother, and advice columnist who takes matters into her own hands when a series of injustices forces her down the path of revenge, from #1 New York Times and international bestselling author McFadden.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025

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