How to Use honcho in a Sentence

honcho

noun
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  • That includes this duet with the crew's head honcho Cam'Ron.
    — AL.com, 11 July 2017
  • Trey, the head honcho of the faithful, recites the pillars for him.
    — Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 18 June 2020
  • And though the In De Goot honcho may be over 70, slowing down is not in his future.
    — Katherine Turman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The Tesla honcho is a master at risking the ridiculous to change the world.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 May 2021
  • Burt Lauten, the Steelers’ PR honcho, got word of the story around lunchtime that day.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • That ’03 Red Sox bullpen coughed up his first opener as head honcho, and Epstein took the loss hard.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • But what does the White Walkers' head honcho want anyway?
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2019
  • The list of things that went right for the Sacramento Kings under head honcho Vlade Divac is a short one.
    — Sean Deveney, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • So how does these numbers stack up to the royal head honcho's figures?
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 2 July 2019
  • Getting to Chase Center for games will be a breeze, Warriors honchos promised.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Jill Pavlak is co-head honcho of Urban Growler Brewing.
    — Bruce Corrie and Jill Pavlak, Twin Cities, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Publicly, the Times’ honchos appear to be circling the wagons.
    — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 1 May 2017
  • In one military honcho’s household, the maid is spying on the general and the cook, while the cook is spying on the general and the maid.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
  • But, oddly enough, there’s a weird burst of comic relief in the episode coming from Smithereens head honcho, Billy.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 8 June 2019
  • The sad fact of the matter is that this White House has no standards for conduct among its employees, because the head honcho is the worst behaved of all of them.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Meanwhile, Harley honchos toured Japanese plants and came back with ideas.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Kris Jenner, head honcho of the Kardashian-Jenner club, is a busy woman and the mom of six superstars.
    — Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 27 Feb. 2019
  • And something the head honcho will surely write about in her next annual report.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 16 June 2022
  • Mystique is a silent killing machine, and Catwoman is a solo act—and both fill a supporting role next to the male head honcho.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 5 June 2017
  • Kyle Whittingham, who was his position coach his senior year, is now the head honcho.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The Front Man is the Squid Game's head honcho and enigmatic leader in charge of operating the games and monitors as things unfold.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The luxury of time doesn’t exist at Texas, and everyone from the honcho on down understands it’s time to pin the gas pedal to the floorboard and finish some games off.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The Tod’s honcho is not unlike Moncler’s Remo Ruffini in his thinking.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
  • His net worth is $180 billion, with the Amazon honcho adding nearly $6 billion Tuesday.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The Front Man is the Squid Game's head honcho, the enigmatic leader in charge of operating the games and monitoring as things unfold.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 21 July 2022
  • Ferrari’s head honcho Benedetto Vigna chalks up the success to a strong business model.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige is bound to bring actors, filmmakers and some big surprises at the first in-person Comic-Con in three years.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
  • Baseball ops honcho Farhan Zaidi stressed the need to improve up the middle, and Turner’s only big-league starts have been at shortstop, second base and center field.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Billboard honcho Paul Ackerman was so impressed that Stein was soon hired to write concert reviews for Billboard.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Staying in touch with this new customer is a savvy move for an Italian honcho who has two children in their 30s, Pietro and Romeo, no grandchildren yet and an increasingly unrelatable lifestyle.
    — Rory Satran, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022

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