How to Use lede in a Sentence

lede

noun
  • But for the players on this list, at least their ledes were tight.
    — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But Tan’s comment buries the lede.
    — Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • There was no rifling left for roughly an inch ahead of the lede.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The post’s lede cuts right to the chase in identifying the problem.
    — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Mice seem to be appearing in headlines, ledes, and tweets at a higher rate.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 15 June 2019
  • The lede is terrific, and the article provides all the right quotes and insight.
    — David O'Brien, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The thing about feelings is, the anecdotal lede is all about inciting a feeling.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian didn't bury the lede on Wednesday.
    — Danny Davis, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Feb. 2024
  • And what is not to love about an essay about cheap Italian food that begins with a long lede about Gauguin?
    — Longreads, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Use shorter ledes for topics popular on mobile.
    — Malana Vantyler, Ascend Agency, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The teaser is wise to bury the lede of the new film’s premise, which is focused in part on the decline of traditional media.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
  • As referenced in the lede to this story, Pietranton was known for his love of Springsteen.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Save the ever-present rumble of the train, Fuller’s lede plays out as a wordless dance of the Big City.
    — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Screenshots of Wolken’s headline and lede are commonplace on his social media feeds.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 29 Sep. 2021
  • This article was updated to correct the spelling of Mufasa in the lede.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • If the function of a lede is to engage the reader, this article’s lede seemed to me remarkably effective.
    — The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
  • But right now, talk about voluntary workouts and the camaraderie in the defensive meeting rooms is just burying the lede.
    — Zac Jackson, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The lede teases what’s to come with the perfect blend of structural simplicity and thematic nuance.
    — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Way to bury the lede in the Sports section of the March 17 issue of the Star Tribune.
    — Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Humans would write the ledes; GPT-2 would write the seemingly credible body text.
    — Sarah Kreps, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Seyward’s piece has a very metaphorical lede involving the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
    — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
  • White describes Laurence as the love of her life, and a great journalist who often helped her with writing catchier headlines, stronger ledes and offering first reads.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Leaving Colin Kaepernick off the cover of their unity issue is an egregious example of burying the lede.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Deputy Managing Editor Yesha Callahan is gonna be mad at this short-ass lede, but today there’s no need to pussyfoot around.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2018
  • Most writers are intimately familiar with the near-impossible task of writing a compelling lede — the first few lines of a story designed to hook the reader and draw them in.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2021
  • From the lede, which introduced a compelling subject who refused to be interviewed, to the graphics that helped readers keep up with the many characters, the stories connected all the dots.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2022
  • While the lighting is obviously different in the lede photos, the EA FC 24 image seems to have a bit more of a glossy look.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The lede of my story introduced a tenant named Bobbie Jo O’Dell, who, without question, was the reason this story could happen.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Of course Lionsgate, the company putting this film out, wanted to bury the lede in the promotional material (even the poster barely hints at the political aspect).
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Red Hat's post was a rich example of burying the lede and a decisive moment for many who follow the tricky balance of Red Hat's open source commitments and service contract business.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 30 June 2023

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