How do you use the word "leader" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "leader" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "leader": The guild leader relegated Vince to a lesser officer because he was abusing his power. Everyone looked on me as a leader.

Leader Meaning

/ˈliː.də(ɹ)/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAny person who leads or directs.

nounAny person who leads or directs., One who goes first.

Sentence Examples

The guild leader relegated Vince to a lesser officer because he was abusing his power.

Everyone looked on me as a leader.

Their leader condemned the torture and killing of innocent civilians.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

None

Antonyms:

follower

CEFR Practice Quiz

The project ____ motivated the team to work together and succeed.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The team ____ encouraged everyone to share their creative ideas during the weekly brainstorming session tonight.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *laidī Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Proto-West Germanic *laid ▲ Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī Old English lǣdere Middle English leder English leader Inherited from Middle English leder, from Old English lǣdere (“leader”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī, from *laidī (“leading, leadership”) + *-ārī, or from *laid (“leading”) + *-ārī. By surface analysis, lead + -er. Cognate with Scots ledar, leidar (“leader”), West Frisian lieder (“leader”), Dutch leider (“leader”), German Leiter (“leader, conductor, manager”), Danish leder (“leader, manager”), Swedish ledare (“leader, conductor, director”), Icelandic leiðari (“leader, conductor”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance." — 2012 January 26, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2012, page 87:

"America needs not only an administrator, but a leader - a pathfinder, a blazer of the trail to the high road that will avoid the bottomless morass of crass materialism that has engulfed so many of the great civilizations of the past." — 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:

"On the other hand, I must think of Korea and, particularly, of the three million enslaved Koreans in the North. My obligation as a leader of the Korean people is to achieve unification of our country by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary." — 1978, Richard Nixon, quoting Syngman Rhee, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:

"The leader is the man who knows the way of the overlords but identifies with the life of the oppressed." — 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 195:

"The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it." — 1987, Sylvia A. Johnson with Alice Aamodt, Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild, page 41:

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