How to Use commentator in a Sentence

commentator

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  • Each country has a commentator and most of them are there (at the venue).
    — Fred Bronson, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But the right-wing commentator is still getting paid by Fox News.
    — Stephen Battaglio Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 13 June 2023
  • Like all of soccer’s great strikers, Kerr has a full menu of ways to score; commentators like to call it a knack, or an eye for goal.
    — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
  • One of the Fox Sports game commentators noted that Swift in the crowd with Kelce’s mother, saying the crowd in their suite seemed to be having a great time.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • With commentators on the mic keeping the energy high while the crowd screamed house chants, the moment was electric.
    — Mikelle Street, Essence, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The first project is in partnership with sports commentator Rome.
    — Caroline Brew, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Breen was the team's main radio commentator while Van Gundy was an assistant coach and Jackson was the point guard.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But then again, some commentators think that the two powers have always been allies.
    — Elias Ferrer, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Many commentators believe these will prove highly persuasive to a jury if the case winds up in front of one.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Jones has served as a college football commentator and leading NBA play-by-play voice for more than three decades.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Most of the talk of war comes from what US commentators are considering, with little connection to the ground.
    — Elias Ferrer Breda, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But commentators need to stop crying about abusive gimmicks or gloom and doom.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Das, who couldn’t be reached for comment, was also criticized by commentators perceived as close to the BJP.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The hip-hop track was debuted by the sports commentator, 71, on X, (formerly known as Twitter).
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
  • That led many commentators to credit him with Russia’s main military triumph since the early days of the war.
    — Robyn Dixon, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The falsehoods about Epps were referenced by other commentators on the network, the complaint said.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • Simmons, her successor, stayed only a year and is now a commentator for CNN.
    — Astead W. Herndon, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • This strikes me as an unlikely scenario, at least on the scale that some commentators have predicted.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
  • As many commentators have pointed out, the alternative to the Chevron deference is to leave the fate of regulations up to judges.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In the second inning, a fouled ball ricocheted off the handle of his bat and struck Gonzalez directly in the face, the play-by-play commentator described.
    — Katherine Itoh, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Selections show the late sports commentator’s love of every genre, from rap and hip-hop to musical theater.
    — Brande Victorian, Essence, 1 Dec. 2023
  • During a May 2020 episode of The View, Goldberg gave commentators who had an issue with her re-wearing a particular piece of clothing a piece of her mind.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The line, named in tribute to the famed former player, coach and commentator Ron Barassi, is an imaginary, but potent, fissure.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Well, not only were other commentators speaking out, but Prigozhin himself said this war was a mistake.
    — CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Dramatic music plays in the background, commentators excitedly narrate the scenes, and throngs of fans erupt in cheers.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 18 July 2023
  • Some kind of strobing game show with entirely too many commentators.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The self-destruct system kicked in, and Starship blew itself up, according to SpaceX’s commentators, who were narrating the livestream.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2023
  • But SpaceX commentators said the primary goal of the flight, testing the hot-staging systen for separating the upper and lower stages, appeared to work as planned.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and commentator, has been thrust into the spotlight since entering the race for the White House early this year.
    — Kendall Ross, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The Middle East’s arc of conflict is spiraling Other commentators are less alarmed.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024

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