Sentence examples for confrere from inspiring English sources
"confrere" is a valid word in English and can be used in written English
The word refers to someone who is a colleague, or a fellow professional, or someone of similar rank or standing. For example: "My confrere from the marketing department shared his insights during the meeting."
noun
A colleague or fellow, especially a professional one
- Unfortunately, when it comes to the informant who turns state's evidence against a confrere, the OED slaps on the obscure origin label., Michael Sheehan, Wordmall, February 18, 2008.
For, while a wealthy airline (if any still exist) might aspire to a Papuan bird of paradise, its low-cost confrere could consider something a bit more within its budget a butterfly, perhaps?
Hiroshige is said to have first applied to the school of the more popular artist Utagawa Toyokuni, a confrere of Toyohiro.
One of those things – for Bird and Thomas at least – is Chickens, their First World War sitcom about three men (their old Footlights confrere, Sweet, makes up the trio) who, for one reason or another, are failing to do their duty on the Western Front.
I imagine that this intellectual underpinning is among the reasons his friends cling to him — friends like Truffaut, an old, old confrere — even when he is being most difficult.
While I was trying to see who was who, I heard a sports columnist behind me say to a confrere, "I don't care what happens, I'm still going to be on the Monday plane.
Yehoshua told me that Grossman is the youngest writer whom he regards as a confrere, a brother.
"I don't know if you ever were an anarchist," Antonio accuses an ex-confrere, "but now you've turned into the opposite.
They are too often not aware of holes in arguments that sound plausible when bandied between confreres entirely disposed to agree.This is why, Mr Barone guesses, the Obama administration's liberal lawyers fumbled their rebuttal of conservative arguments for the unconstitutionality of Obamacare.
An opponent of the Jesuits, Pascal ridiculed Escobar and his confreres as teachers of lax moral principles who believed that the end justifies the means.
As is customary with artists of the plebeian ukiyo-e school, early biographical material regarding Hiroshige is scarce: he and his confreres were considered to be only artisans by the Japanese society of the time, and, although their works were widely enjoyed and sometimes even treasured, there was little interest in the personal details of their careers.
Freeman later appeared as a former CIA agent in the action comedy Red (2010), as a high-ranking U.S. politician in the thriller Olympus Has Fallen (2013), as a postapocalyptic survivalist in the science-fiction adventure Oblivion (2013), and as a magician who exposes the tradecraft of his confreres in Now You See Me (2013) and its 2016 sequel.
