How to Use iconoclast in a Sentence

iconoclast

noun
  • To be in the presence of this iconoclast was quite something.
    — Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Only a tiny movement of iconoclasts has been willing to face up to this.
    — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Journalism was once the province of the iconoclasts, but no longer.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Branson, an iconoclast with a ski slope of white hair, wanted his cruise line to stand out from the other fish in the sea.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Lou Reed was an iconoclast, an innovator, a man ahead of his time.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Bauer, while very talented, is an iconoclast and a parting was inevitable at some point.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • In place of the images the iconoclasts destroyed, new and inventive art grew.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Moon was a trailblazer and iconoclast.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • Dave Soldier is an iconoclast, trying to expand our idea of what music can be.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • For those of you who don’t know who Dave Stevens is, perhaps the best way to describe him is as a true iconoclast.
    — Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • There aren't too many iconoclasts left in the rock realm, but Roger Waters is assuredly one of them.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 31 May 2017
  • And like Kerouac, Joe was an iconoclast, his own guy, always on the road, searching.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Here Zohran lives again, too, in the character of a charming iconoclast who achieved rapid success at a young age.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Dec. 2025
  • So to shine a glittery spotlight on the new species, Morris named it after one of music's great iconoclasts.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Ever the iconoclast, Cindy Sherman carried a fur bag and wore rubber boats with her dark suit.
    — Ian Malone, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Nicks is a devotee of love and an iconoclast; her evocative lyrics are both mythic and grounded in reality.
    — Coralie Kraft, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2023
  • His go-for-broke head-first slides and habit of sprinting to first base on a walk marked him as among the game’s most irrepressible showmen and iconoclasts.
    — Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • For the past few years, the museum has opened its doors to a specific generation of iconoclasts.
    — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Even the possibility of Stern going away is a signal of how things have changed for the iconoclast.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Not all the old folks have died off yet, and even among the young there are a few iconoclasts who reject this technological manna from heaven.
    — Tony Long, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2006
  • Martha, an iconoclast, landscaped in the style of Japanese gardens.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2023
  • And at a festival that celebrates the rebels, the artists and the iconoclasts, is there anything more Sundance than that?
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
  • And Hector is an iconoclast and a rebel within the establishment.
    — Emily Zemler, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • There is, though, the joy and cockeyed logic that only the iconoclast understands and figures out how to use for his benefit.
    — New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • Still, for buyers looking for a plug-in hybrid with concept-car looks, the Karma remains an iconoclast's choice.
    — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The rest of the concert honored Arnold Schoenberg in the breach, via that iconoclast’s student and mentor.
    — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast?
    — Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But, more intriguingly, the often shape-shifting iconoclast will be trying on what promises to be a new or at least evolved musical style.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The 72-year-old iconoclast hadn’t seen the show in production before Saturday night.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • Maddon, who now guides the Chicago Cubs, is the original iconoclast among modern managers.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018

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