How to Use schmooze in a Sentence

schmooze

1 of 2 verb
  • People will have time to schmooze during the cocktail hour.
  • Get out and schmooze with others.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 2 May 2026
  • Get ready to sip, snap and schmooze with your favorite stars!
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022
  • This is a good day to schmooze and share your ideas with others.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
  • In fact, this is a wonderful day to schmooze.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This is an excellent day to schmooze!
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 30 May 2026
  • Nobody could schmooze, outwit, or buy their way around the virus.
    — Ruth S. Barrett, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The guests were now armed with the freedom to schmooze—and not a moment too soon.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Enjoy schmoozing with friends and groups.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • This is an excellent day to schmooze with others.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
  • This is also a wonderful day to schmooze.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Enjoy sports, the arts, schmoozing and good times with others.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Your ability to schmooze with others is tops.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, the Gipper schmoozed those on the opposite side of the aisle.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 31 July 2017
  • Trump isn't going to schmooze, and McConnell won't blow smoke.
    — Robert Costa and Sean Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
  • Later, as a learning linguist, the 22-year-old made plans to schmooze with the boss.
    — Candace Buckner, courant.com, 4 June 2019
  • Enjoy schmoozing and sharing good times with others.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, lots of media members are on the field, and most are schmoozing with each other.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Hundreds of competitors and customers stopped by to sit and schmooze and laugh with Jack.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2022
  • Neon certainly thinks so, bringing Moura out to schmooze with critics groups last week.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Enjoy schmoozing with partners, spouses and close friends.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Enjoy schmoozing and taking it easy today.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Enjoy getting out and schmoozing with others.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
  • This is a lovely day to schmooze with friends, as well as to enjoy the company of children and young people.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The Maloofs wanted a coach who would go to the mall to schmooze with season ticket holders.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
  • But mostly folks had come to schmooze and to take in the entertainment Davis had arranged.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • As soon as a commercial break began, stars moved to schmooze as much as possible before the two-minute time span ran out.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The Ringer’s Bill Simmons schmoozed off to the side, and Tooley made his rounds.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Enjoy schmoozing with siblings, relatives and neighbors, as well as younger friends.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But, of course, schmoozing with the press has never been part of Melania’s comfort zone — and maybe with good reason.
    — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026

schmooze

2 of 2 noun
  • This is a great day to schmooze with neighbors, siblings and relatives.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 1 June 2025
  • This is a great day to schmooze with friends, because people are warm, friendly and helpful.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 6 May 2025
  • Its placement there must have been a deliberate way to build in a daily schmooze.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 May 2025
  • This is a great day to schmooze with friends and members of groups and organizations.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 7 July 2025
  • This is a great day to schmooze with friends, partners and even members of the general public.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Neon certainly thinks so, bringing Moura out to schmooze with critics groups last week.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2025
  • This is a lovely day to schmooze with friends, as well as to enjoy the company of children and young people.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The whole affair is typically viewed as a chance to unwind, schmooze and party.
    — Alejandro Granadillo, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This is a marvelous day to schmooze and talk to others, because your ability to sell, market and negotiate is tops.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Several hundred were on the scene to sip, snack, shake hands, schmooze and take tours of The A List’s showroom.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2025
  • This is a lovely day to schmooze with others, particularly younger people or artistic, creative types.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Discussions with friends and groups (especially with younger people) will be positive because your schmooze skills are tops.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Craft breweries across the country have become schmooze central, a modern-day evolution of the British pub and the colonial tavern.
    — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian, 7 Sep. 2017
  • An excuse to close one's laptop, slip into black-tie with fellow literacy artists and schmooze prospective Inprint donors.
    — Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2020
  • In the hours before the debate, many reporters file stories, eat snacks and schmooze with pollsters and political operatives.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The showcase is also a great chance for the basketball industry to network and schmooze, even more so than summer league in Las Vegas.
    — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • But his desire to practice instead of schmooze with sponsors won’t hurt in dispelling the perception of some that football isn’t all that important to Rosen.
    — Kent Somers, azcentral, 17 May 2018
  • Additionally, some of Biden's preferred methods to lobby and schmooze have been curtailed by the pandemic.
    — Aamer Madhani and Lisa Mascaro, Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Enjoy social outings, the theater, sports, fun activities with kids, saucy flirtations, happy hour, coffee with friends – schmooze!
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
  • If Dubai is where watchmakers and watch lovers come to see novelties and schmooze, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are the money.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Use your natural social skills to network and schmooze, because these opportunities may be stemming from your extended social sphere.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 25 Sep. 2017
  • An experienced stage director as well as a renowned administrator, Audi doesn’t just work on grand strategy and schmooze with donors.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • Perched high above Sunset Boulevard, this is where Hollywood power players schmooze over Southsides.
    — Sarah Bray, Town & Country, 3 Dec. 2014
  • For now, the industry is in schmooze mode, sending delegations to meet the chairman, other commissioners and members of Congress.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The bulk of that is from commercial payments facilitated by the WeChat super-app, where a billion Chinese schmooze, shop, and share cabs.
    — Zheping Huang, Bloomberg.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Singer cajoles stressed out, wealthy parents; schmoozes with them about his financial investments; and tries to impress them and the coaches who participated in his scheme with his insider knowledge.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Don't be afraid to cultivate relationships with inspirational people, using your natural finesse to network and schmooze.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 26 Apr. 2018
  • And the elimination of middlemen encourages artists to elevate one another rather than schmooze insiders at cocktail parties.
    — Washington Post, 8 May 2021
  • The Bader Rutter building includes a monumental staircase where employees often meet to schmooze.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2017
  • During that weekend, job candidates would lead a service, deliver a sermon, meet with the preschoolers, teach a class, maybe have lunch with staff and schmooze with congregants during kiddush on Shabbat.
    — Stewart Ain, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Dec. 2020

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