How to Use pied piper in a Sentence

pied piper

noun
  • Hip-hop was no longer a secret rhythm for inner-city blues but a pied piper for the rebel and the thinker in all classes, creeds and countries.
    — Zandile Blay, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The pied piper of the civil rights movement at that time was Harry Belafonte.
    — John Leland, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • In what seems like a lifetime ago, McDougal was the pied piper of barefoot-style running.
    — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But the Leipolds of the future continuing to act as pied piper to players who want to move up to a Power 5?
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 June 2021
  • This had a pied piper effect — visitors curious about where the band might be headed naturally followed.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The players are coming to Austin, Texas, thanks to a 17-year-old pied piper by the name of Arch Manning.
    — Cedric Golden, USA TODAY, 5 July 2022
  • With Butler serving as the pied piper, Arcade Fire was lit up by camera flashes as fans flooded the sidewalk to document the vagabonds.
    — Ilana Kaplan, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The upset was all the more surprising because Djokovic had spent the week becoming the pied piper of the Tokyo Olympics, and the strategy seemed to be working.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 July 2021
  • Instead, led by a coterie of ladies who look like they got lost en route to a Death Cab for Cutie show, the crowd fervently shouts along, eventually drowning out the 31-year-old pied piper onstage.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Lately, though, one of the original pied pipers of that frenzy, Chewy founder Ryan Cohen, has worn out his welcome with people who wear suits to work even as his original fan base has started to find other hobbies.
    — WSJ, 8 June 2023
  • Historically, however, one of the groups isn’t a loose amalgamation of strangers on the internet, nor is it led into battle in part by a pied piper who calls himself Roaring Kitty and streams investment hot takes from his basement.
    — Emily Stewart, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
  • Paul Eschenfelder has become somewhat of a pied piper, another voice trumpeting the Cypress Creek flooding debacle, the number one issue with many residents who live near the waterway in one of the largest watersheds in the county.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2020

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