How to Use curator in a Sentence

curator

noun
  • McKay challenged the curator to bring him the moon rocks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Here’s the lineup of 2023 films, chosen with the help of Coye Lloyd, guest curator and film scholar.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Saffoe, the curator, had called and emailed nine people on his staff to prepare them for the worst.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
  • And that’s not to say that a curator can’t have original thoughts.
    — Jason Wyche, Hazlitt, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The curators seem to have licked a finger and held it to the political winds.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 24 June 2025
  • Over the past couple years, who else on the team have been your supporting curators?
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, the influential British artist was mourning the death of a close friend, the curator Henry Geldzahler.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
  • At the end of the exhibition, the curator sent me the submissions.
    — Melissa Ragain, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The show, which opened in August, will have three rotations, the curator says.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Cole house curators and stewards get the mix of delight and skepticism just right.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • So, this season has been built by a number of curators.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
  • An art curator handed him an iPhone with the flashlight on.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • On Wednesday, curators with ABR and the town's police chief determined the bear was a male.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Then Nancy Spector, as the chief curator, had a chance to join the #resistance.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Peterson, the rescue curator, called it one of the worst blooms she’s seen at SeaWorld San Diego.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Mark went to work at the Meadows in 2001 as an interim curator.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Ruby Carlson, co-curator of the Velaslavasy, calls them rock stars of the panorama world.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The curator of a new exhibition at the former home of Princess Diana has some of the answers.
    — Simon Perry, People.com, 6 Mar. 2025
  • And it wasn’t hosted by a world famous art curator, but by one of the world’s leading airlines: Delta.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Still, Kim has spent the majority of her life working as a painter and curator.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The show’s curator is the Athenaeum’s Christina Michelon.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In the mid 1980s, a curator put together a show of his work in Paris; another staged one in Bern, Switzerland.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Joyce Zelen, curator of prints at the museum, told CNN that condoms would have been sold under the counter at the time.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
  • In a small conference room, Lahiri met with the curator Carolyn Vega to look through some of the folders from the archive.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • When the package was opened, the museum curators were shocked by what was inside.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • Once again, it has been created by the Met’s star curator, Andrew Bolton.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The guy who did the script, Mark Stansfield was almost a Beatles curator.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2024
  • Special event: Derrick Adams will discuss his work with the show’s co-curator, Ellen Rudolph, at 2 p.m.
    — cleveland, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Tom Parker Bowles is a food critic and Laura Lopes is an art curator.
    — Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025

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