figurehead

How To Use figurehead In A Sentence

• She is truly formidable (in the French sense of the word), rather like one of those fantastic figureheads on a tall ship.
• It is essential that diversity leaders be more than figureheads if they are to provide transformative leadership to their campuses.
• But who can be sure that having your political figurehead at the 45-minute presentation is a vote-winner?
• More resonantly, Joan, due to her chastity, courage, chivalry, piety and intelligence, personified an exceptional female figurehead.
• The new leader may as a mere figurehead for a cluster of generals and other bosses.
• He is a figurehead, the hard-drinking leader who gives the gang what they want in exchange for loyalty and service.
• The Pakistani schoolgirl has become a global figurehead. Times, Sunday Times
• He was much more genuine and soft spoken than any of us expected, nothing like the verbose figurehead I'd come to expect.
• But it will now be purely in an ambassadorial role rather than as a figurehead chairman. The Sun
• He was one who loved figureheads, full-rigged ships and the traditions of the navy and the sea. LET NOT THE DEEP