How to Use tribune in a Sentence

tribune

noun
  • But are you troubled by Elon Musk as a tribune for the cause?
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • He wasn’t stretchered out of the media tribune until well after the game had ended.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Trump was the tribune of those who felt betrayed and misled and mistreated.
    — Time, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Trump may have proved to be a uniquely popular tribune for this constituency.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Johnson has become a tribune of the people, without a people.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 6 June 2022
  • There were plenty of open spots in the media tribune; only two dozen or so reporters stuck around for postgame interviews.
    — Ben Golliver, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • At one time or another, opposing camps tried to claim Haggard as their tribune.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Namely, Joe Biden is just too old to be a tribune of the young progressive Left.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024
  • At the competition on Monday, there were twice as many requests for seats in the press tribune as there were seats.
    — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • For months in Petrograd, and all over Russia, every street-corner was a public tribune.
    — Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
  • The man who put aside his comfortable life of wealth and private enterprise to become a tribune to the common man has been terribly wronged himself.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The tribune of empire, Rudyard Kipling, composed two poems for the occasion.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2022
  • For exclusive details about the first 24 hours and more visit chicago tribune dot com forward slash Tylenol murders.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Enlarge / The 2019 fire exposed iron staples in the top walls, inside a column in the nave, and in the tribunes of the choir.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Newsmax is an unusual tribune for baseless accusations of voter fraud.
    — John Koblin, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Trump and comparable tribunes of national greatness are now setting the global agenda.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • And nobody wants to die alone, 7,000 miles from home, in a stadium media tribune surrounded by colleagues.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • In addition, the team found evidence of a wooden post for a seat that a tribune, or Roman official, would have occupied.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2022
  • And there are figures—intellectual figures, political figures—who want to be a tribune of the postliberal right.
    — Shikha Dalmia, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And therein might lie the answer with Dragic and those worthy of tribute from the Heat’s 36 seasons, if not necessary tribune in the rafters.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Oli, a Communist who began his political career as a tribune of the oppressed, seemed unaware of the anger that had accumulated around him.
    — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Over the next five years restoration will extend to the three great rose windows of the west, north, and south façades, the flying buttresses of the nave, the west façade towers, and the windows of the nave tribune as well as the choir chapels.
    — Michael T. Davis, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2026
  • Hadrian benefited from his mentor’s successes and took on various roles and duties—from military tribune to praetor to consul.
    — History Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Wyler's epic drama tells the story of an aristocratic Jew living in Judea who incurs the wrath of a childhood friend who has become a Roman tribune.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
  • After publishing Hillbilly Elegy, Vance was widely seen as a tribune of the working class.
    — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 15 July 2024
  • Le Monde published two different tribunes, on Monday and Tuesday, defending Lapid.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 June 2026
  • Here was a foolish and incompetent tribune of the nation’s racist vulgarians, opposed by the prosperous and the well educated, the civilized and the tolerant.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • On the first day of spring in 1999, Southlake opened the first six blocks of its new Town Square, a tribune to Main Street Americana.
    — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The Democratic strategists who have chewed over their party’s unpopularity in memo after memo since last November pine for an authentic tribune of the working class.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Carson, a Dublin lawyer, rapidly became the political tribune of Ulster’s resistance to Home Rule and then its will for self-government.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 8 July 2022

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