How to Use correspondent in a Sentence

correspondent

noun
  • When writing to business correspondents, use a formal tone.
  • The drama was about a war correspondent on the front lines of Afghanistan.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Our correspondent talks to him.
    — Greg Dixon, NPR, 14 May 2026
  • Some of my correspondents offered long lists of shocking events.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Yet in recent years, he’s become known more as a culture and arts correspondent.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • Loud booms have been heard over Dubai according to our correspondent there.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 28 Feb. 2026
  • His tone was so resolved, the correspondent felt compelled to answer him.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The show then cut to a clip of a Fox News correspondent echoing the same opinion.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 23 Sep. 2025
  • One of our correspondents spotted what appeared to be pouches of the children’s fruit snack on the bench.
    — The Sports Desk, NBC news, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Quint Kessenich is the booth’s rinkside correspondent.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Let’s bring in our chief White House correspondent, Mary Bruce, on that.
    — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The show is suddenly down four correspondents.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Fortune, 6 June 2026
  • There have also been a number of clashes this year with the show’s roster of longtime correspondents.
    — Rick Ellis, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Hawthorne would not manage a staff of writers, or make assignments to a network of correspondents.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • The duo presided over a format change that emphasized stories from correspondents in the field.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The satirical newscast’s correspondents have been taking turns filling in the rest of the week.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • One of those heroes is your humble Nashville correspondent, me.
    — Michael Kosser, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • Here's chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce.
    — ABC News, 17 May 2026
  • News correspondents are trained to keep their emotions in check, but sometimes a story comes along that makes such a feat all but impossible.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Some are about the next generation of correspondents.
    — Adam Reiss, NBC news, 28 May 2026
  • Network correspondents scramble to one-up each other.
    — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That includes war correspondents who are covering war while under the protection of an armed group.
    — Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Other correspondents have caught up with people who have influence on culture.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This year won’t see a correspondent from New Orleans for the first time since 2017.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Griffith aspires to be a White House correspondent.
    — Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2026
  • Hawthorne was an unlikely war correspondent.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • Chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has the story.
    — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • An international team of war correspondents fights to report the truth.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Our correspondent goes to a coastal Indian town to see how those who depend on shrimp exports for their livelihood are coping.
    — Greg Dixon, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Typically, network correspondents will wait in the area to speak to the press secretary.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2025

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