How to Use storyteller in a Sentence

storyteller

noun
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  • The songs are storytellers, and so are the objects in my show.
    — Candace Hansen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The first step, to judge by the absurd crew onstage, will be to change the storytellers.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There are storytellers who made their mark in the media here.
    — William A. Virchis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • All great prophecies need a storyteller; someone must spread the word, sound the alarm.
    — Edmund Arévalo, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The author is a playwright, storyteller and lover of frogs.
    — Nadeen Currie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • To talk to Wilson is to witness a bona fide storyteller at work.
    — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The makeup head described him as the film’s storyteller.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Jeff Daniels wears many creative hats, but they all are tied to his gifts as a storyteller.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The audience knows who the killer is in the first five minutes, so the challenge as a storyteller is to keep the audience engaged, not just in the who, but the how.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • And just in time, a new crop of talented storytellers has emerged to keep us entertained.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Stove God Cooks is that storyteller, that punchline king, that cocaine rap.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Andi Cloud is a teacher, a tribal member of the Ho-Chunk nation and a storyteller.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2022
  • And anybody that’s a storyteller has to embellish it a little bit, right?
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
  • So much of the justice system — from the trial to parole boards and jobs and support networks — requires you to be a storyteller.
    — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Dahl was famously a dark storyteller, but tellingly, the AI couldn’t mimic his style at all.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Over-the-top storytellers who only talk about their successful deeds and not their downfalls.
    — Vulture, 30 Aug. 2023
  • As a storyteller looking to persuade, the first rule of thumb is to build a relationship with the audience while telling the story.
    — Stephanie Judd, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • As a storyteller yourself, who are some of your favorite storytellers and why?
    — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The great rhyming storyteller Dr. Seuss, who died here in his adopted hometown in 1991, has a way of tuning the ear and turning the tongue to conversational verse.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Her longevity is in her artistic approach, and her deftness as a storyteller.
    — Zandria Robinson, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The result is a stylish thriller that’s also a cathartic unleashing of Patel as a performer and storyteller.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Jenny Han is a gifted storyteller, whose fans have been clamoring for the third chapter of this story.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Taylor is a once in a generation artist and storyteller.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 9 Dec. 2022
  • What right does a storyteller have to draw on someone else’s experience?
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The book is set in a fraught distant future and follows a young storyteller who is the only person who remembers Earth’s old stories.
    — Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Each one of them master practitioners of their craft, brilliant storytellers, gold medalists in this Olympics of art and sound and emotion.
    — Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
  • For better or worse, Pixar still seems to be searching for its next crop of innovative stories and storytellers.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 16 June 2023
  • The difficulty lay in the extinguishing of the storyteller.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • And in an age where so many millions of talented storytellers are kept out of our art form simply because of cost, the short provides a welcome ramp to people from all over the world.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The ability to be a storyteller and to communicate the vision of the company and how that ties to the strategy of the company is very crucial.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023

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