How to Use prizewinner in a Sentence

prizewinner

noun
  • Since prizewinners come from all over the world, that is a good thing.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The physics prizewinners broke records about time in a different way.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • There are mini gourds and prizewinner pumpkins — one of the largest grown at the farm this year surpassed 200 lbs.
    — Kelly Wilkinson, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The main aim of the two prizewinners is to integrate several technologies in one device.
    — Despina Moschou, Scientific American, 16 June 2017
  • The lineup of work from more than 25 countries showcases premieres and prizewinners from leading fests.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Arnault and his wife were also accused of misusing academy funds and even leaking the names of prizewinners for profit.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Lewer wasn’t the only prizewinner anointed at the ceremony.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 8 May 2026
  • The picture was a box-office success and Oscar prizewinner—and the worst possible fate for the director’s career.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Venice prizewinner centers around a real-life infanticide court case in which the mother, a doctoral student, claims sorcery as the culprit.
    — Shalini Dore, Variety, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Nearly 40 translations of his novels are in the works; the English version of his prizewinner is slated to appear next spring.
    — New York Times, 22 July 2022
  • The lecture is a requirement of Nobel prizewinners, who have six months after the awards ceremony to deliver it.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 6 June 2017
  • The feature version, which debuted at this year’s Sundance in January, went on two be a double prizewinner at the festival.
    — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 17 July 2019
  • Yoshinori Ohsumi, the most recent prizewinner, used baker’s yeast to identify genes crucial in autophagy, the process by which cells recycle their components.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • To help others reproduce their cake, the proud prizewinner must clearly document the ingredients used and then describe each step of the process by which the ingredients were transformed into a cake.
    — Richard Ball, The Conversation, 5 June 2025
  • Along with returning veterans, the ensemble's younger players — 21 and up — are indeed laureates, prizewinners who need the right platform to help them toward the next career step.
    — Rick Schultz, latimes.com, 19 July 2017
  • There’s also a great selection of local artists’ work on view, including that of Nina Surel, a prizewinner at the area’s annual Art Basel fair.
    — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 7 May 2026
  • Paucar joins a list of prizewinners that includes John Akomfrah, Theaster Gates, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The greatest gender gap was found in the laboratories of the 22 male Nobel prizewinners, where male postdoctorates outnumber women three to one.
    — Roger Highfield, Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2014
  • An Apopka woman is the latest top prizewinner in the $1,000 a week for life scratch-off game, the Florida lottery announced Tuesday.
    — Susan Jacobson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Distribution prizewinner Green Narae Media has played a key role, acquiring a handful of projects at each major market before launching each title with bespoke campaigns.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In the picture, child-Eva (Sundance prizewinner Rosa Marchant) is grinning a lopsided, optimistic tomboy grin, unaware of the violent end of innocence lying in wait for her.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Isthmian, Delphian, and Old Hundred—and a tally is kept to see which produces the most prizewinners in academics, intramurals, and extracurriculars.
    — Eric Konigsberg, Town & Country, 5 Nov. 2015
  • Dhont's Close, a prizewinner at Cannes and a quiet stunner at private screenings during the run-up to Oscar nominations, will make some viewers uncomfortable — a reaction the director expects.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Percival Everett’s Pulitzer prizewinner James is a response to Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Such questions seem to be a specialty of Lafosse’s, a director whose best movie to date, the 2012 Cannes prizewinner, Our Children, made the viewer somehow feel deep empathy for a woman who killed all five of her own kids.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2023
  • North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Learn about North Dakota's history of rodeos and ranching; see prizewinners' saddles; and visit a gallery of bronze sculptures depicting longhorns, horses, and cowboys.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
  • This Cannes Directors’ Fortnight prizewinner sets out its pitch-black-comic stall early with a prologue in which, after a brief contretemps, local man Raoul Brun (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h) blows his supercilious neighbor’s head off with a shotgun and then disappears.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • Thanks to the alliance between both IFF Panama and Colombia’s Cartagena Film Festival (FICCI), the prizewinner of the pics in development will travel to Cartagena where she will be given the chance to further develop her project and build strategic connections with potential partners.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026

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