bearer

Example Sentences

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His admiration for HBO is well-established, and it would be an unwise business strategy to kill or diminish prestige TV’s standard bearer after acquiring it.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2025

She was thrilled to be a chalice bearer at the event but said she was stunned by the bishop's behaviour at their first meeting soon afterwards.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

“And to be the first flag bearer for my country was so fire.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

But Abbot Joseph Mpundu, a standard bearer for the repressed 1992 protests against Mobutu's rule, takes a dim view of any rehabilitation of the ex-dictator's image.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

The cinema man's lips twitch numbers as he paces down the pavement, slow as a coffin bearer.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell