How to Use impresario in a Sentence

impresario

noun
  • But the impresario of the flower show is not much of a gardener.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • My mother was the impresario of our outfits.
    — Amanda Uhle august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In less than two weeks, Reynolds had become the impresario of an outdoor gallery.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Davis' career began not as a music impresario, but a lawyer.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • The contest’s impresario, vividly brought to life in these pages, was Brig.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The record label impresario was frequently caught on camera with his fists in the air.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Chef Savoy has short white hair, a touch of a beard, and a manner one-part diplomat, one-part impresario.
    — Alan Behr, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The Hollywood club impresario was never far away when his costars clashed.
    — Aili Nahas, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2019
  • Its impresario, Mack Sennett, hired him for three dollars a day.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Longtime soccer impresario Lee Stern is still on the board at 98.
    — Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The entrepreneur and club impresario is known as one of the party purveyors of the city’s nightlife scene.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The 72-year-old impresario has been recording videos of himself playing through some of his own repertoire.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Vera Brandes was a jazz impresario, but she was surrounded by all of these new styles of music.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The impresario's death touched many, far beyond the City of Angels' borders.
    — Andy Gensler, Billboard, 6 May 2017
  • Jones, of course, went on to become one of the greatest music impresarios in history.
    — John Hope Bryant, Time, 23 June 2026
  • One was Alan Freed, the impresario who helped make the song a hit by spinning it ad infinitum on the radio.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The problem with that, however, was that he had been paired with arch silliness impresario Richard Ayoade.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Her passions are reignited by Tedros (the Weeknd), a nightclub impresario with a sordid past.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 17 Apr. 2023
  • One of those tracks was produced by pop impresario Jack Antonoff, with whom Morris is working on a new record.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And the impresarios and opera stars who drive the backstage story are all excellent, ably bringing comic relief to this dark tale.
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The show, held in the Soho boutique of the nightlife impresario Susanne Bartsch, was paid for by his parents.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Her passions are reignited by Tedros (The Weeknd), a nightclub impresario with a sordid past.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Richard Haydn, as the impresario who launches the singing Von Trapps, contributes some nice humor.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Mason’s partner in this quest was the writer and impresario Alain Locke, who had been Hurston’s mentor at Howard.
    — Emily Bernard, The New Republic, 19 June 2018
  • Along the way, the shaggy bearded, Zen-like impresario has picked up nine Grammy awards, most recently for his work with the Strokes.
    — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • To the street-art impresario Steve Lazarides, Invader is a purist in a milieu awash in easy money and obvious gags.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Then its wonderful impresario, Joan Bayen, died in April after 81 years working the bar.
    — Ted Weesner, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • The track appears on the hip-hop impresario’s new album Khaled Khaled, which arrived today, April 30th.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Restaurant impresarios Chris Corbin and Jeremy King made their name with this place; a grand all-day brasserie, next door to the Ritz.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026
  • In the industry, he was widely known as the unofficial mayor of show business, a die-hard poker player, a game night impresario and a complete original.
    — Annabelle Gurwitch, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026

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