How to Use diarist in a Sentence

diarist

noun
  • How much of their lives the diarists left behind varies wildly.
    — Julia Kelly, Time, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The story of teenage diarist Anne Frank is known across the world.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The modern researchers aren’t the first to try and figure out what was wrong with the diarist’s eyes.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • Some diarists write to report, reveal, rebel, resist.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • In this series, an anonymous diarist shares seven days of spending down to the last penny.
    — Refinery29 Staff, refinery29.com, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Like all good diarists, Beaton was not afraid to reveal his weaknesses.
    — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Still, experts remain focused on the fate of the teenage diarist whose life was cut tragically short.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The memorial includes a life-sized bronze statue of the Jewish diarist.
    — Fox News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • That’s the birthday of Anne Frank, the most famous Holocaust diarist.
    — Ben Nuckols, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2017
  • The diarists have been granted anonymity to encourage candor.
    — Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
  • The book for the show is by New Yorker reporter and diarist Adam Gopnik.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 4 May 2017
  • The dailiness of life is emphasized, and the intimate voice—a diarist’s voice—feels more like that of someone talking to herself than to you.
    — Sigrid Nunez, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2021
  • Others have pointed out that despite the cruel irony, the honor was intended to help keep the young diarist's memory alive.
    — Manisha Ganguly, CNN, 31 Oct. 2017
  • This is personal filmmaking with a diarist’s sense of detail and an artist’s generosity.
    — Justin Chang, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
  • Eventually, the archive would include the work of more than 2,000 diarists.
    — Ruth Franklin, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Our diarist was undergoing IVF treatment at the time of writing.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The Anne Frank House has served as a key steward of the diarist’s legacy since opening in 1960.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2020
  • This week’s diarist is Kristyn Leach, a farmer in Winters, California.
    — Bon Appétit, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Beyond seeking a mental release, diarists write to preserve and retrieve memories.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The writer and activist Mark Baumer, who died this week, at the age of thirty-three, was a compulsive social-media diarist.
    — Anna Heyward, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017
  • The act of reporting creates distance between the writer and the observed, and the diarist becomes a kind of mole, reporting both on those around her and on herself.
    — Roxana Robinson, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Today's diarist is Alton Brown, who is at home outside of Atlanta with his wife, Elizabeth, and their two dogs.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 21 May 2020
  • But two New World School of the Arts graduates, who came across another teenage diarist from the same era, are hoping to get her voice heard.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys often slept with male friends and rated their conversation skills.
    — Brian Fagan, Quartzy, 4 Oct. 2019
  • One room will reflect the famed diarist’s experiences living in hiding from the Nazis for two years in a secret annex in Amsterdam.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • So wrote Jean Froissart, a diarist of the Middle Ages, after an outbreak of bubonic plague in the 14th century.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2020
  • Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has died.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The work, by late veteran journalist and diarist Kenneth Rose, has been serialized in the Daily Mail and sheds new light on some of the behind-the-scenes thinking of the royals.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • One wealthy diarist who helped found the scientific Royal Society of London wrote in 1659 that coal smoke was ruining the city and wrecking citizens’ health.
    — David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • On the other hand, in the 17th century a maidservant was able to thwart the unwelcome advances of the diarist Samuel Pepys by grabbing a pin from her pocket and threatening to stab him with it, according to his own account.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022

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