How to Use consigliere in a Sentence

consigliere

noun
  • College sports at the very least needs a wartime consigliere.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Schreier has now served on the board for a decade and is one of Houston’s consiglieres.
    — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Brando as don and Duvall as consigliere perfected the scene in two takes.
    — Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Valerie Biden plays to Joe —a backstage consigliere to Charles.
    — Time, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Elias is already something of a wartime consigliere for the Democratic elite.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Yet the group keeps him around, and over time Rogers is upped from freelance devotee to full-time digital consigliere.
    — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2012
  • The best attorneys are not only your legal eagle, but also your consigliere.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2021
  • His consigliere Giuliani is still pursuing shady characters in Kyiv who will give him fake facts for a price.
    — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The two men were close during last year’s campaign; Kushner came to see Bannon as a wartime consigliere.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2017
  • The longtime economic consigliere tried to blow up Biden's stimulus.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Adams was Belichick’s sounding board, confidant, and consigliere.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
  • Laura’s consigliere of choice is her dad Felix, wealthy art dealer, doting grandpa, friend to the working man, cad, rogue.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
  • But the best thing Bratton did in his seven-year stint was persuade Connie Rice to come inside the tent as consigliere.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
  • Trump’s chief mentor, and a consigliere to most of the big shots named above, was the legendary underworld and overworld fixer Roy Cohn.
    — Sean Wilentz, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Steve Bannon, now a White House consigliere, is by most accounts not a bigot in his personal dealings.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Harbaugh parted ways this offseason with longtime offensive line coach and run-game consigliere Tim Drevno.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Bill saw his services as consigliere paid back in kind as Gordon Getty and his wife, Ann, took care of Gavin—in many ways, over many years.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Accompanying him were his cofounder and consigliere, Dustin Moskovitz, and a couple of interns.
    — Adam Fisher, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • Trump’s sons will take care of his business empire and will hire an ethics consigliere, but the president will still be aware of how any policy decisions would affect his bottom line.
    — Daniel Politi, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
  • There is even less hubbub about David Leavy, the longtime consigliere who was recently installed to oversee business affairs.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • Soon enough Maurizio is back in the mix, with Patrizia as his loyal consigliere and Lady Macbeth.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Chase created Silvio Dante, Tony's right-hand man and a consigliere in the DiMeo crime family.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
  • But having hack comedian and manosphere consigliere Bert Kreischer introduce the teams?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The press-averse Bracey, who declined to speak for this article, is described as a sort of consigliere to Bieber by several people who’ve interacted with him.
    — Shirley Halperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
  • In the season’s penultimate episode, Albert pitched himself as a consigliere who could help as the restaurant expanded to Chicago’s suburbs.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • Richard Ravitch, the businessman, former lieutenant governor in New York and longtime consigliere to state and city officials, told me.
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Stanley Tucci is back as Nigel, Miranda’s unfailingly loyal consigliere, who never butchers a bon mot or wears the same pocket square twice.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026
  • With Trump out of office, Miller continues to moonlight as McCarthy’s consigliere, on a strictly volunteer basis, of course.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Kenner arrived on the case with street cred in the hip-hop community and a reputation as an effective consigliere to the biggest names in ’90s West Coast rap.
    — Michael Ames, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Through his first six months in New England, Stretch has been described as an evolved version of Ernie Adams, the one-time consigliere to Bill Belichick.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025

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