How To Use Compere In A Sentence
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Nagesh compèred the show and kept the audience entertained with his mimicry.
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Ultimately, however, it was the compère who mattered - who could they find who represented the indomitable spirit of Britain, the calm acceptance of the ever-present risk of death, and, most important, the triumph of love over death?
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He started his career as a TV compere.
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The following year he succeeded Byrne as compère of the Rose of Tralee.
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The compère strides forward and plucks the microphone from the stand.
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Fantasia members compèred in French for the audience.
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He compères these evenings on what appears to be a semi-pro basis: he is doing 63 of them this season for cub troops all over the Washington suburbs, and has to be booked months in advance.
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Precious, has choreography by Lea Anderson who was the compere for the recent Channel 4 series Tights!
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For consistency and polish it was the compere's night.
Times, Sunday Times
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I did package shows there with friends - three acts and a compere for a fiver.
Times, Sunday Times
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John won the toss of a coin to present the first program, but this soon gave way to a single compère a year later.
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The compère strides forward and plucks the microphone from the stand.
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Unfortunately the compères struck a bad-tempered note at this otherwise congenial event.
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Early attempts, including Cool for Cats and Six-Five Special, combined performances with bantering compères to mixed effect.
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For consistency and polish it was the compere's night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seated on a green-and-white striped chair he watched a _revue_, of which from start to finish he understood but one word -- 'out', to wit -- absorbed in the doings of a red-moustached gentleman in blue who wrangled in rapid French with a black-moustached gentleman in yellow, while a snow-white _commere_ and a _compere_ in a mauve flannel suit looked on at the brawl.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
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Compere: Why to negotiate procrastinate so old?
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The compère jibed back ‘Oh, so you are are a futurologist as well?’
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Miss Mindy, the evening's compère and the club manager, went for the make-up as armour approach.
JUST BETWEEN US
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He is mentioned as having been Du Fay's clerc in the latter's executors' account, and is among the musicians named in Loyset Compère's motet Omnium bonorum plena composed probably for the dedication of Cambrai Cathedral in 1472.
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Miss Mindy, the evening's compère and the club manager, went for the make-up as armour approach.
JUST BETWEEN US
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The bride immediately swapped her L-plate for a pair of glasses, revealed she was a lawyer, and pointed out the contract wasn't legally binding – before downing yet another sambuca and shrieking for the compere to take his top off.
Isy Suttie: My Edinburgh
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‘Sexy and, at the same time, very, very wearable, all in pastels,’ the voice of the compère, appeared to croon.
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The compère was inexperienced, the DJ unforgivably took it upon himself to heckle the support acts and the sparse audience was less than receptive.
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He compèred for the corporation and the bands submitted to interviews with him and made the right deprecatory noises.
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We sit down for dinner and a compere tells us how it will all work.
Times, Sunday Times
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I did package shows there with friends - three acts and a compere for a fiver.
Times, Sunday Times
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In those days it was held that the god-mother of a child stood to it in the relation of a second mother: hence originated the term of 'commere' and 'compere,' which Joan gave the d'Epinals.
Joan of Arc
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We sit down for dinner and a compere tells us how it will all work.
Times, Sunday Times
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The glittering ceremony was hosted by comedian Billy Crystal, who has now compèred eight times, and who cracked plenty of jokes.
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The programme was compèred by Rashmi Rao, a dancer and disciple of Shailaja Madhusoodan.
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• Royal wedding news now, and wasn't it kind of Alton Towers to give the Duchess of Fergie the chance to compere its wedding coverage on April 29, especially as pointedly, and poignantly, she hasn't been invited to the much awaited love-in?
Hugh Muir's diary
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The slightly red-faced compère lifted one glamorous rose after another and grinned for the cameras.
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Brookside actress Rachael is making her Playhouse debut, while comedian Duggie Brown plays the compere.
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However, a jarring note in the musical evening was the frequent use of English by the girl who compèred the programme.
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McGuinness took the role of compère, interspersing the three acts with a couple of quick gags and some audience ‘whipping’.
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Before long, Mackay was working as compère and Sheppard was devoting more time to the selection of the acts; home and work life began to merge.
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Le rusé compère avait fait signe aux camarades des alentours: une meute entière tomba sur la bête fauve et la mit en pièces.
French Conversation and Composition
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She comperes that awful game show on Saturday night.
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Speaking to the Gazette this week he said: ‘They will probably need someone with a big mouth to compère the auction.’
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He started his career as a TV compere.
