How to Use speechwriter in a Sentence

speechwriter

noun
  • She is the President's principal speechwriter.
  • His speechwriters grabbed the metaphor by the hinges.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe spend a few bucks to hire a speechwriter and then stick to the script.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Her speechwriter talks about how the iconic speech came to be.
    — smithsonianmag.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Sorensen had been in his position as a speechwriter for less than a year.
    — Kristen Welker, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Young Joe should get a new makeup artist and maybe a new speechwriter as well.
    — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2018
  • And that, by the way, gives you more confidence in the role of speechwriters.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Each campaign has a team of speechwriters and social media mavens who won’t be much help on stage at the live event.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
  • However, a good speechwriter does far more than write something like what the leader would have said.
    — David Murray, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The author of this piece was Boris Johnson’s speechwriter for a time.
    — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 17 June 2026
  • Poets and playwrights worked alongside speechwriters on his staff.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Cody Keenan, our chief speechwriter and a die-hard Chicago sports fan, offered me an out.
    — Stephen Krupin, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The sentence had been drafted by a speechwriter with his feet on the ground, unaware the eyes of his president were on the skies.
    — David Shribman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
  • Thirty thousand feet in the air, Mark Zuckerberg turned to his speechwriter.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Former speechwriter Reid Lidow failed to make the runoff in his bid for city controller.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
  • Former Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau says not so much.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Standing up to deliver a speech that some marvelous speechwriter wrote to counter the lack of verbal acuity the night before does not turn this around for me.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
  • One, David Sorensen, was a speechwriter; another, Rob Porter, a top aide.
    — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 11 Feb. 2018
  • All sorts of people called to talk to the speechwriters with all sorts of whacky suggestions; this certainly had to be the most interesting.
    — Eric B. Schnurer, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • At the time of the movie, Stein wasn't an actor, but rather an economist, presidential speechwriter and lawyer.
    — Emma Urdangen, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
  • What appeared more likely was that some aide or speechwriter had nudged the term up the chain of command until it could be presented to him as a spell to be cast on his audience.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Goodwin now had a hot hand, and Johnson sought to bring him to the White House as his domestic affairs speechwriter.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • That wasn’t Biden’s meaning, said Dylan Loewe, a former Biden speechwriter.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The speechwriter who penned that line must have cut class on a day when an important lecture in Economics 101 was given.
    — WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Matthews was a presidential speechwriter for Jimmy Carter.
    — Chris Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • Julian Gerson, Mamdani’s campaign speechwriter, is staying on in that role on the government side, too.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Stephanie is married to Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, and their two children are the same ages as Psaki’s.
    — Lizzie Widdicombe, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2021
  • In addition to her academic life as a writer and teacher, Barnes has worked as a speechwriter, freelance editor, and writer.
    — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
  • One of the many interviews that caught my attention was with Terry Szuplat, a speechwriter who helped draft the Athens address.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Bill Moyers has asked an array of luminaries to play speechwriter for tonight's State of the Union Address.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2013

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