How to Use director in a Sentence

director

noun
  • The company will hire a new director of marketing.
  • She's the director of graduate studies at the university.
  • She's considered one of the best young directors in Hollywood.
  • Phil Heyes joins the team for the first time as director.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2023
  • So the fun of the director’s cuts is the hour of additional footage in each of the films.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Friend of the director Marc Jacobs had his own fits to show off.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Tatum stepped in to play the role of the launch director after actor Chris Evans, who had been first attached to the role.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
  • For 13 years the 33-year-old has been the artistic director for Laylow, a French trap artist.
    — Sofia Celeste, WWD, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The board should fill the vacancy caused by the resigned director.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • And yet the dog-loving creative director was too good to be true.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The prize money is to be split between the producers and the directors of the winning film.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 July 2024
  • But the story, told by director Tomáš Mašín in Brothers is all true.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Yes, things fall from the sky in writer and director Colin West’s film.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But this also underscores the director’s challenge with the rest of the film.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The director points out that Bouchard’s involvement also made the episode stand out.
    — Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The athletic director who hired both of them was Mark Coyle.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The movie’s director Joel Souza was also shot and injured.
    — Julia Vargas Jones, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Knowing that the little girl wanted to be an actress, the famed director decided to put her to the test.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The director of the daycare, 60-year-old Marleen Lowry, is charged with failure to report child abuse.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding the director, Joel Souza.
    — Morgan Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding the director, Joel Souza.
    — Morgan Lee, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding the director, Joel Souza.
    — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • There is the theater made by playwrights and actors and directors.
    — Frank Rich, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The camp directors have mixed feelings but understand there are times the outdoors won't cut it.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 22 July 2023
  • Baldwin was pointing a prop pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding the film's director, Joel Souza.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
  • More even than magnetism and talent and charm, a force of will that directors like Paul Feig and Luhrmann recognize in her.
    — Andrew Sean Greer, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Like Abraham said, our dad was a choir director in Detroit.
    — Akili King, Essence, 2 July 2024
  • Thankfully, director Marc Webb’s movie is good enough to rise above the discourse.
    — Staff Author, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • That meant costume director Estelle Don Banda would, for the bulk of the film, have only one look for most of the characters.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The director, Philip Barantini, at the helm for all four episodes, suffocates both the characters and the audience with a long sequence at Jamie’s school, where the officers have come to question the boy’s classmates.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025

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