How to Use standard-bearer in a Sentence

standard-bearer

noun
  • These two are standard-bearers for the glory of a culture that once was.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 June 2026
  • The Democrats have only so much time to figure out who their own standard-bearer will be.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The strategic question is who emerges as the campaign’s standard-bearer?
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But even the industry’s standard-bearer couldn’t outrun the cost trend.
    — Seth Joseph, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • The nine expressions below are standard-bearers for this group.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Neither came from wealth and both had to defy doubters to become their party’s standard-bearer.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The standard-bearer for Wolves’ abysmal year of recruitment.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Both were the standard-bearers in Washington.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The Metal Gear series has been a standard-bearer for the stealth genre since the 8-bit era.
    — PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
  • China’s reticence to serve as the standard-bearer for Pyongyang is not new.
    — Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Scott wrapped up a final bogey, tipped his cap, shook hands with his group’s standard-bearers and walked off into yet another void.
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 16 June 2025
  • Waterboy chef, Rick Mahan, is the standard-bearer of the city’s farm-to-fork scene.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Trump is poised to be the standard-bearer for the GOP for the third time in as many elections, and in record time.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Month after month, a new video game became the standard-bearer for its respective genre, series or platform.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • For most of the last decade, the Big 12 was college basketball’s standard-bearer.
    — Jim Root, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Now, Democrats have broadly accepted him as their standard-bearer, even if half would prefer someone else.
    — Camille Baker, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The opposition tends to have a more secular and diverse approach, and views the court as a standard-bearer for its cause.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • And what about the world that looks to America as a beacon of hope and the standard-bearer of liberty and justice?
    — Mansoor Shams, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
  • Sadly, opioid disorders are the standard-bearers for this problem.
    — Sterling Elliott, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Hamas also wants to be seen as the standard-bearer of Palestinian resistance across the Arab world.
    — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Not even the Candy brothers, standard-bearers of the London trophy-condo craze, could flip a unit there.
    — Curbed, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In the space of a few years, the 27-year-old has become one of the standard-bearers of the White nationalist movement.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Many longtime standard-bearers of the company’s DNA have also walked away in recent years.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 31 July 2024
  • Many Ukrainians do not see Navalny as the democratic standard-bearer he is considered to be in the West.
    — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • As this new breed of college sports FOIAer has entered the scrum, one of the practice’s standard-bearers bid farewell, at least for now.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The last time a party chose a standard-bearer who didn't really go before primary voters was in 1968.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 24 July 2024
  • At a moment of change both within fashion and outside it, Vogue must continue to be both the standard-bearer and the boundary-pushing leader.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Naqvi, a poster-boy of late-20th-century globalization, was a notable standard-bearer for this mission.
    — Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • But Pro Tools still holds court as the standard-bearer for cross-platform digital audio workstations when working on client projects day in and day out.
    — PCMAG, 1 May 2024
  • With a second consecutive triumph, Texas can establish itself as this sport’s new standard-bearer.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 June 2026

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