How to Use maverick in a Sentence

maverick

1 of 2 noun
  • There is a word that goes around, a maverick.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • That’s what being a maverick is about.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 June 2026
  • That’s what makes the firm called Fundrise stand out as a maverick.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 July 2022
  • Most of our mavericks who fly that close to the sun never get to see that journey through.
    — Ahmir “questlove” Thompson, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
  • This is the sixth year that the coffee mavericks are offering the deal in store and online.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Press reports called him a renegade and a maverick, and many in his profession shunned him.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Molly Rogers is a true maverick of fashion.
    — Kelsey Legg, ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • And Andrew is a bit more laissez-faire, and carefree, and a bit more of a maverick.
    — Sean Abrams, Men's Health, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Cherki, at times, has lit up matches with his maverick ability.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Nearly into his ninth decade in life, that’s one mission that the elder maverick shows no sign of changing.
    — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • There are no maverick molecules in the universe.
    — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • There is a character called the Mule, who’s kind of a maverick, who throws predictions off course.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Today, she should be considered a feminist, a maverick, ahead of her time.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • His image as an industry maverick also acts as a suit of armor against critics.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Mace later used her vote to cast herself as a maverick, fundraising aggressively off the move.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • As lessons for all, a less giddy approach towards start-ups and their visionary maverick founders must be adopted.
    — Roomy Khan, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Fans of the coffee maverick's pistachio latte have a cool surprise on the winter menu.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This isn’t the first time Tecovas has taken a maverick position.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Arizona loves a good maverick, and both Sinema and Kelly have wrapped themselves in that cape.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Trump hadn’t hired a kooky, maverick academic who happened to agree with him on tariffs, as has often been suggested.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Enter Bob Parsons, a maverick billionaire who first took psychedelics three years ago.
    — CBS News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Rumors paint the bra as a push-up prototype, drawing on Hughes' knowhow as an aerospace maverick.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Thomas is known as something of a conservative maverick – and his tenure has been partly defined by a readiness to stand alone.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2022
  • This love, combined with egalitarian ideals, has made Hill a bit of a late-blooming maverick.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
  • Following the formula of the classic western, a small town’s pair of maverick heroes stand up against an outlaw gang.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Another of my colleagues, a true maverick, managed to come up with what the test told him was a quite-rare result of having no strong archetype matches at all.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Now Mullen, always a maverick, is in a perfect position to make history.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Miss Piggy the diva, Kermit the moral compass, Gonzo the maverick, etc.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Andrew Yang enjoys being a maverick.
    — Jack Kubinec, Fortune, 2 June 2026
  • Collins is a tough campaigner who can straddle the line as reliable party player and outspoken maverick.
    — Julia Terruso, Time, 8 June 2026

maverick

2 of 2 adjective
  • George Sand's maverick views on marriage scandalized 19th-century French society.
  • That used to be what set the Raiders apart, their maverick culture.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Why not the maverick wisecracking scoundrel who flew the fastest ship in the galaxy?
    — T.j. Furman, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
  • First, Kelly was forced to choose whether to side with his maverick home-state colleague or toe the party line.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
  • But McCain, trying to live up to his maverick image one more time, would not budge.
    — Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
  • The would-be maverick Democrat is trying to sink the minimum wage hike.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2021
  • So there’s the Texas maverick side, but also a part of us that will absolutely step up to take care of our own.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Brooks has somewhat of a maverick edge to him and backed Ted Cruz in 2016.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], AL.com, 25 July 2017
  • All are one of a kind; all fuse a master jeweler’s craftsmanship with a maverick’s vision.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Today, a few maverick winemakers produce small amounts of mission from these legacy vines.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The company has worked on its maverick quantum project since 2004.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • But so is the simple story told by liberal critics of a bloodthirsty reactionary whose maverick pose is a pure fraud.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Oct. 2017
  • If progressives stand behind them and if two maverick senators remain on board, the bills could become law within weeks.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Into that void has stepped Atlas, who has relied on the maverick scientists to bolster his in-house arguments.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Installing allies into key Cabinet posts left her open to the charge that her team was both inexperienced and maverick.
    — Rosa Prince, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The solution to that problem, some maverick winegrowers have suggested, is to plant grapevines made from non-vinifera species or — more likely — hybrids of vinifera and non-vinifera.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Danon's maverick ways pushed Netanyahu to fire him from his position as deputy defense minister in 2014.
    — Aron Heller, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • From Angela Carter to Steve Jobs, the black turtleneck came to represent maverick brilliance.
    — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • An hour before the event, the maverick creative director published the handwritten show notes to Instagram.
    — Georgia Murray, refinery29.com, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The Kingmakers The elephant in the room is the maverick Pirate Party.
    — Ragnhildur Siguroardottir, Bloomberg.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • One thousand years would pass before the city received a visit from a team of explorers led by a maverick Scotsman in the 1700s.
    — Rubén Montoya, National Geographic, 30 July 2019
  • That concept that West is maverick putting forth new ideas is behind his thinking and his defense for his remarks on slavery on TMZ.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • Just as the house founder rewrote the fashion rules, his successor intends to take an maverick approach to the system, one that will be independent of fashion schedules and seasons.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 26 May 2021
  • Here's a look at the best XI to work with the maverick manager and his esteemed assistant Peter Taylor.
    — SI.com, 29 July 2019
  • His show No Sleep will return this summer, switching to a biannual format so the maverick producer can devote himself to club life full-time.
    — Lee Keeler, SPIN, 10 May 2022
  • Mike Pompeo is the Madonna of the intelligence world, a maverick bold thinker who’s into Kabbalah.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 14 Mar. 2017
  • In front of Baquedano’s statue, maverick artists have installed three wooden sculptures that personify the indigenous tribes of Chile, from north to south.
    — Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Though Babis was a finance minister in the outgoing government until May, many Czechs see him as a maverick outsider with the business acumen to shake up the system.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan (2014) is one of the great films to have debuted at Cannes this decade, so this family drama from the maverick Russian director is a must-see.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017

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