guest of honor

Example Sentences

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And they had to wait over an hour for the guest of honor to arrive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The cake, it seemed, was upstaging the guest of honor.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

At a dinner on Fifth Avenue where Churchill was the guest of honor, Mitchell, trying to maintain his usual bonhomie, stood up and offered a toast: “To my fellow former millionaires.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

But it was only just a few days ago that Allen came under fire for virtually attending the Moscow Film Festival as a guest of honor.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

Now, two weeks of delicious anticipation later, Shirley sat between the principal and the guest of honor onstage before an assembly filled to overflowing.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord